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English Electric DRS Class 37 locomotive acceleration 0-60mph (0 - 100km/h)
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2019
- How fast do the 50-year old English electric Class 37 locomotives accelerate? Here we sample Class 37's top and tail on a Greater Anglia service between Norwich and Great Yarmouth operated by Direct Rail Services (DRS). The Class 37's English Electric V12 engines are rated at 1750 brake horsepower (bhp) (1305 kW) driving a generator that supplies power to the traction motors - which deliver a maximum 1250 horsepower at the rail.
So with both locomotives combining to provide a combined 2,500hp to push and propel this 326 ton train, how fast will they reach 60mph (100km/h)?
Burst out laughing at the '70s adult film music at the start. Perfect for a 37!
John Holmes and Ron Jeremy would’ve felt right at home! 🤣
Class 37, the most brutal sounding diesel loco ever
I love how those old EE Locos accelerate away from the station even before the engine spoils up. In Western Australia we had a class of them which spent their last days tooling up and down Perth’s suburban railways with a few carriages, practically at idle. They looked and sounded immense! One still runs, but insurance risk has excluded it’s heritage owner from driving it on the main line. Pity...
‘50 year old’
These are closer to 60 years old, it makes it all the more impressive
Now that’s some acceleration! Great sound too.
Nice to see it in action never saw one before
My uncle used to work at Crown Point in Norwich he used to service these and the 08 shunters and class 11 amongst others including the 125 intercity
It was nice to ride this train before it was replaced by the FLIRTs. The class 37 is a loco that i have great memories of going to north wales by one from crewe. I have seen them on the cumbrian coast line with a MK2 DBSO resulting a push pull by the 37 at one end instead of top and tailing as this happened on the wherry lines.
Excellent, thrash monster
Seen the old girl outside Norwich I was with my mom and dad in the camper van having chips I went over to the stations the she was class I was over from Belfast for holiday
The locomotive driven by Jeremy Clarkson. Wouldn't a 0-60 time will be less if the locomotive is light engine than hauling wagons or carriages? Took a minute, longer than a three wheel Reliant Regal.
Too easy for for two 37s with that small of load the rear 37 is there cause there isn’t any run round facilities these days for locos to run around
Would it beat my go kart in a drag race?
Oh boy! What an old diesel nightmare. Electric locomotives (even of the same age accelerated so much faster). 😂 Thank God those days are long gone. Class 37 was introduced between 1960 and 1965 which was exactly the time when they should have electrified more lines than just the WCML. It's kinda sad but this locomotive is actually a symbol of failure.
Yes, because they could snap their fingers and the UK network consisting of many, many remote branch lines would magically be electrified right? And they would have to chalk up faith in then-foreign 25kV AC right, not to mention the reliability and of AC stock and particularly rectifier technology at the time?
@@ronh5a471 These supposed technical problems sound like the product of the fevered imagination of a hopeless diesel romantic. All over the world railways were sucessfully electrified without any major problem after WW2. Britain just "missed the bus" on electrification. For decades British Rail had been "dieselized to death". Thank God, Margaret Thatcher ended the madness and electrified the ECML. Nowadays, thanks to Japanese technology Britain is slowly but gradually getting electrification back on track. All five lines between Glasgow and Edinburgh have been electrified as well as the Great Western Mainline and some important branches. Still not enough but good to see the progress.
Pro & Contra Deutschland among my favorite locos are the early AL1 through 5 AC electric of the 1960s but you won’t find me bragging about their reliability at the time. Rectifier problems and frequent fires were not a “made up issue” at least in the early period 60s. Everything is possible in a virtual fantasy land - but here on Earth mercury-arc rectifiers were a serious problem that Britain wasn’t excited to haggle with, at least in the early post WWII period. Since you seem to romanticize “jumping the gun” on electrification yourself how would you explain the 50s Woodhead DC system that was so criminally ripped up after an unfulfilling life? Had Britain followed through fully electrifying the network with it - in spite of very clear constraints for this system, major infrastructure changes would need to be made, as well as a full motive power replacement. Ask yourself, in perspective, would it be possible for Britain at the time? Would they really have wanted or been able to build 1200 power substations?
Yes Britain could have in theory electrified the ECML much earlier but hasty decisions based on limited insight into 25kV AC would have made for an expensive problem if rectifier issues didn’t sort themselves out.
Hmmm, ok.
Pro & Contra Deutschland This class 37 for example, it’s old, unreliable, slow, polluting, fuel consuming, loud and not overly powerful. Completely and utterly economically crap. But to us railfans and general vehicle enthusiasts, they are so cool, they sound amazing and they are exciting and dramatic. A modern EMU or electric locomotive is better in every scientific and mathematical sense, but to me at least they are a bit lifeless and clinical.