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 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.