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Paul Scott June 26th 09 09:48 AM
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In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:40:38 -0500,
wrote:

The 350/2s, having been ordered for LM to start with, don't have
shoegear of any sort.

But some have now been equipped for use on Southern?

No. Only 350/1s are used by Southern.

Ah! My confusion then. So why the suggestion that only some are converted
to be suitable for that role?


Only a subset of the 350/1s have been made ready and depot tested for DC
use, about 15 AIUI, out of the 30 in total. The 50% that do not have the OK
to work on DC wouldn't need a significant amount of work to do so. However
the whole sub class (350/1) is type cleared for DC running, the use by SN
only required route clearance.

For the 350/2s DC use would not be possible without significant additional
equipment being added.

Paul



[email protected] June 26th 09 11:44 AM
Watford Junction Oyster validators
 
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

Only a subset of the 350/1s have been made ready and depot tested
for DC use, about 15 AIUI, out of the 30 in total. The 50% that do
not have the OK to work on DC wouldn't need a significant amount of
work to do so. However the whole sub class (350/1) is type cleared
for DC running, the use by SN only required route clearance.

Thanks for clarifying that.

For the 350/2s DC use would not be possible without significant
additional equipment being added.

What equipment? Just shoegear and DC fuses/circuit breakers etc, surely?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Paul Scott June 26th 09 04:05 PM
Watford Junction Oyster validators
 
wrote:
In article ,
 (Paul Scott) wrote:

Only a subset of the 350/1s have been made ready and depot tested
for DC use, about 15 AIUI, out of the 30 in total. The 50% that do
not have the OK to work on DC wouldn't need a significant amount of
work to do so. However the whole sub class (350/1) is type cleared
for DC running, the use by SN only required route clearance.

Thanks for clarifying that.

For the 350/2s DC use would not be possible without significant
additional equipment being added.

What equipment? Just shoegear and DC fuses/circuit breakers etc,
surely?

It is still a reasonably significant amount of external hardware across a 37
unit fleet, with 8 sets of shoe gear each.

Paul S



[email protected] June 26th 09 07:11 PM
Watford Junction Oyster validators
 
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

 wrote:
In article ,
 (Paul Scott) wrote:

Only a subset of the 350/1s have been made ready and depot tested
for DC use, about 15 AIUI, out of the 30 in total. The 50% that do
not have the OK to work on DC wouldn't need a significant amount of
work to do so. However the whole sub class (350/1) is type cleared
for DC running, the use by SN only required route clearance.

Thanks for clarifying that.

For the 350/2s DC use would not be possible without significant
additional equipment being added.

What equipment? Just shoegear and DC fuses/circuit breakers etc,
surely?

It is still a reasonably significant amount of external hardware
across a 37 unit fleet, with 8 sets of shoe gear each.

That's 8 shoes each? Presumably 2 each side and each end of each driving
car? Just to be sure what you're counting as shoegear.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Paul Scott June 26th 09 07:14 PM
Watford Junction Oyster validators
 
wrote:
In article ,
 (Paul Scott) wrote:


For the 350/2s DC use would not be possible without significant
additional equipment being added.

What equipment? Just shoegear and DC fuses/circuit breakers etc,
surely?

It is still a reasonably significant amount of external hardware
across a 37 unit fleet, with 8 sets of shoe gear each.

That's 8 shoes each? Presumably 2 each side and each end of each
driving car? Just to be sure what you're counting as shoegear.

Yes, that's the normal 350/1 and 450/444 set up - 4 sets per end car.

Paul




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