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Electric locomotive does 357KPH (223MPH in old money!)
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:31 pm
by seaeagle
Today in Germany, Austrian railways (OBB) locomotive 1216 050 reached 357KPH whilst on test on the Nürnberg - Ingolstadt line. This smashes the previous best of 331KPH set by SNCF locomotives BB9004 & CC7107 set some 55 years ago. Pictures can be seen at
http://drehscheibe-online.ist-im-web.de ... ?4,3022857
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:13 pm
by steve74
Surely the french SNCF TGV holds the electric record at 514 kmh. Was set in a five car set about ten years ago.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:32 pm
by seaeagle
Surely the french SNCF TGV holds the electric record at 514 kmh. Was set in a five car set about ten years ago.
A TGV set is not a locomotive, it is a EMU (electric mutiple unit). Locomotive 1216 050 is the fastest electric locomotive. Also the TGV set that did 514KPH (set 531 if my memory is correct), was modified for that run.
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:05 pm
by AlistairW
In a word... Cool!
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:28 pm
by wyefielder
any chance of getting the wonderful story translated into english, good on them, at least they know how to run a railway
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:19 am
by danny3
wyefielder wrote:any chance of getting the wonderful story translated into english, good on them, at least they know how to run a railway
Probably not the best way to translate but try this
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