83001_1976_04_Crewe

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83001_1976_04_Crewe
83001_1976_04_Crewe

83001 leads a line of “prototype” ac electrics (classes 81 – 85) adjacent to Crewe station waiting there next turns of duty, 3rd April 1976. Fifteen locomotives of class 83 were built between 1960 and 1962 by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry works, as part of British Railway's policy to develop a standard electric locomotive. The class 83 suffered with major problems with the water cooled mercury-arc rectifiers, resulting in the entire class being stored in 1969. English Electric put forward several proposals to cure the problem, but it wasn't until the authorisation of the northern section of the WCML electrification that the plans were carried out, and Silicon Rectifiers fitted to the fleet during refurbishment at Doncaster in 1973-74. 83001 was originally E3024 and entered traffic in July 1960. In July 1983 virtually the whole class were withdrawn en-mass including 83001 and it was broken up by Vic Berry, Leicester in December 1984.

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Taken on: September 21, 2011
Tags: Everybody's photos tagged with 3rd April 3rd April
Sets appears in:   • Class 83    • April 1976   
Groups appears in:   • UK Class 8x    • Classic UK rail traction    more » • British Rail time machine, BR-ordered or operated Diesels only.    • British Railways (1948 to 1995)    • Class 83 (AL3) Electric Locomotives    « less
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