Legendary, rare, and lucky! 🤩 Shame I couldn't see them ☹️ Atleast I know where they're secretly stored now at Singwell with the HS1 MPV's 😏 Nice to see an Ex-Eurostar 73 still in Preservation! 😄
Interesting that the krupps dont have the "chimney" extensions like the originals. The exhaust used to do a 90 and run along the long bonnet and over the" buffer" beam. They used to run through the tunnel with a "scrubber" wagon coupled between a pair of locos . The engine exhaust used to run through a water bath and activated charcoal in the wagon , so as not to pollute the tunnel. They used to pull the night time works trains.
Visited about ten years ago. We got seats directly behind 2nd mans position waiting to return from Shepherdswell had video cam ready. Stone me an employee or volunteer with a woman and child park themselves in the cab. So I asked the man politely if the two passengers could move into public seating as I wanted to film the journey. He declined and that basically spoiled the visit for us😠
@@siccodierdorp6947 Actually the class 500/600NS are based on the BR class 11, an earlier version of the 3 axle EE shunter, the visual difference is in the cab roof. The 600 or class 11 have roofs with a continuous curve, the roof on an 08 has a distinct kink in the radius.
EKR appears to have changed quite alot since I was a volunteer there 10+ years ago.
Legendary, rare, and lucky! 🤩
Shame I couldn't see them ☹️
Atleast I know where they're secretly stored now at Singwell with the HS1 MPV's 😏
Nice to see an Ex-Eurostar 73 still in Preservation! 😄
There stored in the Eurotunnel Diesel shed. The path only went up to the Boundary.
@@andrewroberts1376 Is that inside the Channel Tunnel truck & car loading area? 🤔
@@SSccaanniiaa it's the otherside of the tunnel
@@andrewroberts1376 Oh 😑
So totally useless to get to 🤣
@@SSccaanniiaayou can just about spot it all through a 20ft fence lol
Interesting that the krupps dont have the "chimney" extensions like the originals. The exhaust used to do a 90 and run along the long bonnet and over the" buffer" beam. They used to run through the tunnel with a "scrubber" wagon coupled between a pair of locos . The engine exhaust used to run through a water bath and activated charcoal in the wagon , so as not to pollute the tunnel. They used to pull the night time works trains.
Great catch very rare
Visited about ten years ago. We got seats directly behind 2nd mans position waiting to return from Shepherdswell had video cam ready. Stone me an employee or volunteer with a woman and child park themselves in the cab. So I asked the man politely if the two passengers could move into public seating as I wanted to film the journey. He declined and that basically spoiled the visit for us😠
What’s all that gubbins on the noses of the 73, please?
Specialist coupling for Eurostars.
@@22pcirish What do the circles even do? I've seen them on a 37 and the 92's but never known what they did.
@@Youraveragetrainspotter They were meant to represent a slice of the tunnel receding into the distance.
Those are pretty common around Germany especially freight yards
Locomotive Brett is a former Dutch Shunter Class600 ( Serie 600). From NS Netherlands railways
??? No, it's a 'Sik' 200/300, 600's are 3-axle shunters, they know them very well in the UK as class 08
@@siccodierdorp6947 Actually the class 500/600NS are based on the BR class 11, an earlier version of the 3 axle EE shunter, the visual difference is in the cab roof.
The 600 or class 11 have roofs with a continuous curve, the roof on an 08 has a distinct kink in the radius.
Krupp.