Single-unit English Electric 2000-hp 1-Co-Co-1 design for 170 mi section of 3 ft 6 in. gage road; units will haul trailing loads of 760 tons on 68 axles; length over buffer beams 56 ft; total weight in working order 113 'tons; starting tractive effort at 30% adhesion 60,-300 lb; power unit is English Electric 16 SVT Mk II diesel engine with main and auxiliary generators. (see also Gas and Oil Power v 602 n 50 July 1955 p 191-2) (Supplement to Railway Gazette and Railway News)
Main-line locomotives for Rhodesia
Diesel Ry Traction
Diesel Railway Traction ; 9 , n 278
1955
5 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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