EE GT3
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The EE GT3 is a diesel turbine locomotive in the UK Railway Add-on Set.
Statistics and information
Type: | Turbine Locomotive |
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Introduction: | 1958 |
Withdrawal: | 1985 |
Speed: | 90mph |
Power: | 2750hp |
Weight: | 123t |
Tractive Effort: | 169kN |
Drawn by: | Scuddles |
Prototype information
Built, for some unfathomable reason, on the chassis of a Standard Five steam locomotive, English Electric's Gas Turbine demonstrator was powerful and fast, but expensive, hard to maintain and very, VERY noisy. English Electric's own diesel products were clearly preferable to British Rail, and the GT3 was but a strange side-note in the development of modern railway locomotives.