Best Electric Loco Sound

[Blindtraveler]

Iv gone for the 90 after many happy miles behind them followed by a break of several years then a re introduction to their greatness on GA the other week.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

73 for me. Miss my days bashing Gatwick Express wifh the unmistakable while from their EE546 motors shared only with the REPs

Your last chance to enjoy English Electric motors thrashing now the 442s have gone lie with the 455/8 and 455/9 (although 317-322 use a GEC derived but similar motor) but not for long as they are going in for AC retractioning

 

[D365]

You ain't heard nothing yet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNt5jL7ukDk

...that's unique and unmistakable!!

If you think that's something, how about this:

[youtube]iMYqWHnE9ww[/youtube]

Your last chance to enjoy English Electric motors thrashing now the 442s have gone lie with the 455/8 and 455/9 (although 317-322 use a GEC derived but similar motor) but not for long as they are going in for AC retractioning

There's still the Southern units which aren't being done.

 

[vtiman]

I walk my dog on a lane parallel to the ECML most nights and sometimes afternoons as an excuse to latterly spot 387s.

Sometimes I hear the trains before I see them. Apart from rare steam engines the most recognisable and exciting still after 40 years are our wonderful HSTs. The Class 91 electrics are distinctive too especially leading northbound. They sound pretty good with a more muted sound of power. With EMUs the Class 365s have their own sound. All electrics seem to flashover if that is the right word, by where I walk and even made my dog jump !

I also can tell if the diesel approaching is a Class 180. A few months ago I heard the RHTT consist and immediately though : Ah a diesel
Loco !

 

[D365]

All electrics seem to flashover if that is the right word, by where I walk and even made my dog jump !

A flashover is a pretty serious occurrence in electronics

 

[vtiman]

Arcing then. Can you advise me of the correct term for this i.e. Flashing when I guess there is a poor connection between the OLE and the Pan or the third rail and connector shoes. Happens quite often on the Underground too, usually over points. Also, I seem to remember a story a few years ago that there were children's swings right by the WCML in Harlesden I think and there was arcing occurring between I think electric locos probably 87s. May just have been one of those stories !

Also, a friend who commutes to Moorgate said she notices this too or hears it. She said that the train lights always go off at Drayton Park and I said I thought it was possibly because that is where the AC DC switchover took place.

 

[vtiman]

May have been Stonebridge Park near Wembley. I can't find anything on google was probably 25 years ago !

 

[D365]

Arcing then. Can you advise me of the correct term for this i.e. Flashing when I guess there is a poor connection between the OLE and the Pan or the third rail and connector shoes. Happens quite often on the Underground too, usually over points. Also, I seem to remember a story a few years ago that there were children's swings right by the WCML in Harlesden I think and there was arcing occurring between I think electric locos probably 87s. May just have been one of those stories !

Arcing is the term, it doesn't even have to be a poor interface, but tends to happen when a large current is being drawn.

As for the 'story', 100% an urban myth.

Also, a friend who commutes to Moorgate said she notices this too or hears it. She said that the train lights always go off at Drayton Park and I said I thought it was possibly because that is where the AC DC switchover took place.

It's related, yes.

 

[TimboM]

Went for the flying badger, surprised I'm the only one that has so far (though there was a post in the 230 thread that looked like it should've been here!).

Not many people will know what it sounds like I guess!

 

[59CosG95]

If you think that's something, how about this:

[youtube]iMYqWHnE9ww[/youtube]

Oh my good lord. In the right hands, that could be a film score!

 

[route101]

IMO There is nothing to beat the sound of an 86 or 87.

Used to love the sound at Glasgow Central of these , the class 90s i dont recall being loud

 

[Clansman]

Voted for the 92s. The only locomotive I could ever hear right from my berth, travelling on the Sleeper, despite being in the second coach!

 

[Silver Cobra]

Class 91 all the way for me Always enjoy listening to them as they arrive at and depart from Stevenage on the Kings Cross-Leeds services.

 

[Strathclyder]

The 86s/87s get my vote, closely followed by (in order) the 91s, 92s & 81s-85s.

 

[Jamesrob637]

If you think that's something, how about this:

[youtube]iMYqWHnE9ww[/youtube]




About on a par with a Trabant for acceleration

How about the Lok 2000? (Re460)

Or some of the older Swiss electrics?

 

[RichJF]

Can we put class 88 up there? Watched a few clips of it on UK rails & the sound is amazing (subjective).

 

[broadbander]

A wheelslipping Taurus...

https://youtu.be/aRf30pVGMp4

 

[Spamcan81]

If you think that's something, how about this:

[youtube]iMYqWHnE9ww[/youtube]




There's still the Southern units which aren't being done.

Sounds like a Tangerine Dream album.

 

[Cowley]

A wheelslipping Taurus...

https://youtu.be/aRf30pVGMp4

They really sound strange, quite pleasant though.