UK: Class 57 & Class 67 powered (both top and tail) passenger services pass at Bristol Temple Meads
Class 57 & Class 67 powered (both top and tail) passenger services pass at Bristol Temple Meads
Clip recorded 12th April 2010, locomotives are:
57312 leading with 57302 on the rear, working 2D04, the 0728 Taunton-Bristol Parkway.
67022 leading with 67017 on the rear, working 2C67, the 0800 Cardiff Central-Paignton.
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Bristol Temple Meads railway station is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol. It is an important transport hub for public transport in Bristol, with bus services to various parts of the city and surrounding districts. Bristol's other main-line station, Bristol Parkway, is on the northern outskirts of the Bristol conurbation.
The station opened on 31 August 1840 as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway from London Paddington station. The whole railway including Temple Meads was the first one designed by the British engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. To accommodate an increasing number of trains the station was expanded in the 1870s by Francis Fox; and again in the 1930s by P E Culverhouse. Brunel's terminus is no longer part of the operational station (now in use as a car park). The historical significance of the station has been noted, and most of the site is Grade 1 listed.
Temple Meads is now owned by Network Rail and is operated under a franchise by First Great Western who provide the majority of trains to London, along with local services and inter-urban routes to destinations such as Cardiff, Southampton, Portsmouth and Weymouth. Long-distance services are provided by CrossCountry to destinations as diverse as Plymouth and Penzance in the South-West of England; Manchester Piccadilly and York in the North; and Edinburgh and Aberdeen in Scotland.
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The Class 57 is a re-engineered locomotive, rebuilt by Brush Traction at Loughborough from redundant Class 47 locomotives. The locomotives are fitted with a refurbished EMD engine and a reconditioned alternator, improving reliability and performance. Three variants exist, one for freight and two for passenger operations. At £500,000 it was about one-third the cost of a new build locomotive.
The class has its origins in 1997 when Freightliner ordered an initial six locomotives. In 2000 a prototype locomotive was converted with electric train heating, with a view to obtaining orders from passenger companies.
They are sometimes known as Bodysnatchers, or Zombies to enthusiasts, by virtue of the fact that the shell (body) of the Class 47 has been stripped, rewired and re-engined and as GMs due to them being genetically modified with General Motors equipment, EMD being a General Motors owned company.
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The Class 67 locomotives are a class of Bo'Bo' diesel electric mainline locomotives which were built for the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway between 1999 to 2000 by Alstom at Meinfesa in Valencia, Spain with drive components (engine and transmission) from General Motors Diesel. EMD's designation for this locomotive type is JT 42HW-HS.
Thirty locomotives were ordered in a £45million contract split between Alstom and General Motors for use by the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) as Class 47 replacements for use on high-speed mail trains and passenger trains. The locomotives were obtained on a 15 year lease from Angel Trains.
The locomotives are able to supply electric head end power for passenger train heating and air-conditioning, and are equipped for buffer and screw coupling and also coupling via a buckeye coupler.
The first locomotive to be delivered was 67003, which arrived in October 1999. Initially plans were for a rapid acceptance into service, but problems with the locomotives being slightly out of loading gauge caused delays. Acceptance trials began in December, and all 30 units had been delivered to the UK by early 2000.
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