EE GT3

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The EE GT3 is a diesel turbine locomotive in the UK Railway Add-on Set.

Statistics and information

One livery variation
Type: Turbine Locomotive
Introduction: 1958
Withdrawal: 1985
Speed: 90mph
Power: 2750hp
Weight: 123t
Tractive Effort: 169kN
Drawn by: Scuddles

Prototype information

Gt3.jpg
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 piston-powered products were clearly preferable to British Rail, and the GT3 was but a strange side-note in the development of modern railway locomotives.


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