Talk:British Rail Class 73

message: There is a discussion about the naming convention to use for articles about British locomotive and multiple unit classes at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (British railway locomotive and multiple unit classes). Your comments are more than welcome. Thryduulf 22:27, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming convention

message: With respect to my recent edit, the AC Locomotive Group's page on 73138 says the following:
"Electro-Diesel 73138 is privately preserved by Group members but has been restored by the Group and was used as our depot shunter at Barrow Hill until 2006. It has now moved to Long Marston for further use."
I didn't change the location, since I don't know which (if any) of the wiki pages on Long Marston should be linked to. J-Deeks 14:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  73138 

message: Mention needs to be made about the specialized control and braking systems fitted to the the class 73 locomotives, such as their ability to convert the control and braking interface from one type of control to another ie. air <-> vacuum braking. (SouthernElectric 13:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple unit control and braking system 

message: 73 207 was outshopped at St. Leonards Depot in blue & yellow livery, for First GBRf who I believe wish to use it for shunting duties at Tonbridge. 212.225.115.67 (talk) 12:05, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  73 207 

message: Locomotive details, retention, Fleet summary, Preservation, All content is requested modification.
[Korean: 기관차 세부사항, 보존, Fleet summary, Preservation, All content 수정 요청합니다.]
* http://www.preserved-diesels.co.uk/index.htm - Preserved-Diesels.co.uk
* http://www.wnxx.com/index.htm - [wnxx] End of the Line: Withdrawn & Stored Locomotives UK
* http://www.thejunction.org.uk/ - thejunction.org.uk  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.137.16.146 (talk) 07:20, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Class 73 locomotives for the modification request. 

message: Some locomotive's round trip to the finals, a lot of wrong information, raises the old.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.137.16.34 (talk) 07:00, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Rail Class 73 electric locomotive remove some of the content is requested. 

message: "According to Rail magazine (March/April 2010) C73LPC now manages five Class 73 locomotives. These are 73109, 73118, 73133, 73136, 73211. Number 73211 has been stripped for spares and is unlikely to return to service."  What about 73210, then?  A later section then indicates that 73211 is being used as a spares donor for operational '210 and others.  Don't the C73LPC manage 6 locomotives, with Rail having got it wrong? DiverScout (talk) 12:35, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors on 2.9? 

message: http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/repowered-class-73-to-roll-out-next-year.html 23 June 2011
Anyone looking after this articles - new engines, more power etc etc Imgaril (talk) 21:01, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not add it yourself? Biscuittin (talk) 21:24, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: New engine

message: Will the new Cummins engines be identical to railcar engines (i.e. horizontal) or will a vertical version be used?  Horizontal engines are unusual in locomotives, but not unknown, see British Rail Class 17 for example. Biscuittin (talk) 13:38, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Class 73/3 

message: This loco has been at network rails derby depot for a number of weeks, still in Pullman livery  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.245.205 (talk) 11:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  73101 the royal Alex 

message: This section is unreferenced and contains the following: "A major design flaw with the class was that the traction current circuits of each bogie were not isolated". This sounds dubious to me because the same would apply to most third-rail electric stock. Biscuittin (talk) 22:49, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical details 

message: The WNXX forum and the RailUK site report that 73117 has been renumbered to 73968 and 73103 to 73970 on conversion - currently (20/6/16) these numbers are transposed in the fleet summary section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:9207:4700:C55F:1D44:3222:FDC5 (talk) 09:58, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fleet summary 

message: From the page (no source cited):
"However, in an early test with one of the 73/01 (JA) types, a major wiring error was revealed. Not in the locomotive, but in the whole Electric and Diesel Electric Multiple Unit fleets. This involved two of the wires in the traditional SR 27 way jumper. The outcome was that if an EMU was coupled to a DEMU they would try and go in opposite directions."
This seems unlikely to me. I've seen (though now don't have) diagrams for the EMU and DEMU 27-way jumpers, and the pinouts differ in numerous respects. For example, an EMU has two pins for the power notch (giving four settings) while a DEMU has three (allowing up to eight), using completely different sets of pins. Can anyone with access to the diagrams confirm or contradict this account? HungryHorace (talk) 13:40, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The diagrams are in RSSB document GMGN2590 (October 2002). They do not bear out the story of two swapped wires -- rather, the pin assignments are completely different for all functions except the starting bell. See excerpts posted on Rail UK Forums: . I have therefore removed the unsourced anecdote. HungryHorace (talk) 18:00, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple working 

message: As a child in the 1980s I had a Lima class 73 (OO guage) number 73142 "Broadlands". However, the article says:
"Lima launched its first version of the BR Class 73 in OO gauge in the early 2000s."
If anyone can find an online link to a Lima catalogue from the 1980s then this can be corrected.
Gareth.randall (talk) 17:26, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Model Railways (First Lima class 73 was 1980s, not 2000s) 

message: I came to this page looking for technical details for the re-engined class 73/9 - but the 'outbox' seems to be missing a few things and concentrates mainly on 73/0 and /1 info - for example diesel engine type (actually needed for all versions?), tractive effort, top speed, who built it etc
Some of the 73/9 info is in the main text but can anyone help fill the gaps in the specification outbox? (I don't have all the info and a bit short on editing ability...) Thanks Andywebby (talk) 10:37, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  73/9 

message: Class 73141 was renamed on 26/08/22 from Charlotte to “SPA Valley Railway 25 years Anniversary”  at Eridge Railway station 2A02:C7E:381A:8600:DD98:E24F:2FD3:551B (talk) 20:47, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Got a reliable source to back that up? Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 03:58, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  73141 renamed 

message: Transferred to GBRailfeight 2A02:C7C:7D05:F00:5BCB:A4A7:67AC:69C1 (talk) 17:50, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a source for that? Danners430 (talk) 18:02, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  73202