AEI AL1
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The AEI AL1 is an electric locomotive in Project 1000.
Statistics and information
Type: | Express Passenger Electric |
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Introduction: | 1959 |
Withdrawal: | 1990 |
Speed: | 100mph |
Power: | 3200hp |
Weight: | 79t |
Tractive Effort: | 222kN |
Replaces: | Streak, Britannia |
Replaced By: | Class 90, Class 91 |
Prototype information
British Rail ordered several small batches of experimental AC electric locomotive in the early 1960s, before settling on the AL6 as a standard design. The AL1 was the first of these experimental classes.Similar locomotives
The AL1 stands for all the experimental AL1-AL5 (Classes 81-85) locomotives.