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[email protected] · June 26th 09, 07:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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.

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Colin Rosenstiel