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Paul Scott · June 26th 09, 09:48 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:40:38 -0500,
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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 posted to uk.transport.london

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?

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Colin Rosenstiel

Paul Scott · June 26th 09, 04:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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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 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

Paul Scott · June 26th 09, 07:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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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