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 diesel 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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