About a third of the class 50s are preserved. Including my favourite
Nice to hear a third have been saved 
, but got to ask Martin; what is your favourite Class 50? 
50017 Royal Oak - had tow very good runs including one where I think the governer had been played with - it may have been on eof the played with class 50s in the early 80s.
There were soem tests carried out, AFAIR one 50 was running at 2900bhp and another at 3150bhp and to be honest Royal Oak was performing like a type 5.
If you want to see good 50 running look on youtube for 50049 55022 and you will see that out of the stations the 50 is doing most of the work, and the noise, whereas at speed the Deltic is doing a lot, but 6000bhp sometimes 8000bhp to play with is a lot.
For the people wondering
Pre HST there were only two 100mph rated Diesel designs, both English Electric.
One was the most powerful Diesel in the world when built at 3300bhp - class 55 Deltics and the 50 is a V16 with 2700bhp
Author
Topic: let s go swindon for ride... (Read 1063 times)