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It's not just the "Standard". Christian Wolmar, writing in Friday's "Times"
states that an HST "has a locomotive at one end". Last time I checked, it
was one at each end.

A pity, since his basic premise that it is nuts to transport dead diesel
engines round under the wires (in bi-mode IEP) was sound.

Regards

Jonathan

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:11:36 +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote:

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It's not just the "Standard". Christian Wolmar, writing in Friday's
"Times" states that an HST "has a locomotive at one end". Last time I
checked, it was one at each end.

Maybe he was thinking back to the period when the HSTs were being re-
numbered, and some sets would have had something in the 43xxx range at
one end and something in the 254xxx at the other - a locomotive at one
end and a DEMU driving motor brake at the other?

;-)

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From the Model M of Andy Breen, speaking only for himself

In message , at 13:11:36 on
Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Jonathan Morton
remarked:

It's not just the "Standard". Christian Wolmar, writing in Friday's "Times"
states that an HST "has a locomotive at one end".

Yerse - but it does have a locomotive at one end... and another at the
other end

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Roland Perry

In article ,
(Jonathan Morton) wrote:

"bob" wrote in message
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It's not just the "Standard". Christian Wolmar, writing in Friday's
"Times" states that an HST "has a locomotive at one end". Last time
I checked, it was one at each end.

A pity, since his basic premise that it is nuts to transport dead
diesel engines round under the wires (in bi-mode IEP) was sound.

I suspect he miswrote. The distinction he was making was that the
locomotives are separate vehicles, two in the case of HSTs, one on most
other local-powered passenger stock.

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Colin Rosenstiel