Briti***urbines?

[TrainFreak409]

Where would be a good place to get information on Briti***urbine locomotives? Everytime I try using a search engine, I never get anything good. Any websites? Books a library might have? Anything would be helpful, as I am trying to increase my turbine knowledge.

[Anonymous]

You are really obsessed with these turbines (not hats either I presume)[;)].
Never heard of any Briti***urbines.
James[C):-)]

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

You are really obsessed with these turbines (not hats either I presume)[;)].
Never heard of any Briti***urbines.
James[C):-)]

YES I AM!![:D] Turbines are awesome! And the hat is a turban, not a turbine.[:p]

[Anonymous]

There were three turbines that ran on British Railways and two still survive today. 18000 introduced in 1949 and built for British Railways Western Region by Brown Boveri (Switerland). This had a A-1A+A-1-A axle arrangement and is preserved at Crewe.
18100 was designed by the Great Western Railway and delivered to British Railways and had a Co+Co arrangement. This loco was converted into a 25Kv AC loco and after languashing at Rugby for many years was scrapped by Cashmores at Great Bridge in the West Midlands.
The most recent one was the APT-E (Advanced Passenger Train-Experimental) which was a four car articulated set with a power car at each end which housed a gas turbine. This train is now preservered at the National Railway Museum at York as a three car set.
I hope this information is of help to you.

[Anonymous]

There's an excellent website for the APT-E at http://www.apt-e.org/ - covers the recent restoration and move to Shildon from the NRM's York site. It doesn't look as though they plan to restore it to working order, though at least it's now under cover and has had the assorted rusting areas attended to, and is now in far better condition than during the years spent dumped outdoors at York. As for the other two, the best I could find was http://britishrailways.tripod.com/ex18000.html for the Brown Boveri (1800). The site also covers another Briti***urbine, GT3, built by English Electric. http://britishrailways.tripod.com/exgt3a.html is the link for that one. Hope these are of use!

Edit: just found this site with more information on 18000, 18100 and GT3

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Pages%20Loco/D%20loco%20page%20list.html

If you scroll down and click on the relevent entries under "Recognition/illustration files" you'll find photos and data.

[TrainFreak409]

Thank you very much guys!

[Anonymous]

I forgot about GT3, it was built on a BR standard 4-6-0 chassis without outside cylinders. It was a strange looking thing and i dont think it was overly successful as it only had a short working life and was scrapped after spending more years in storage than in service

[TrainFreak409]

Thank you Lotus098 for the information on the LMS Turbomotive. And you see the results I get using two different posts. I tried the General Discussion first, got nothing after a day, so I tried here. And this one got more information.

One more thing, of course I'm interested in steam turbine information, any turbine, is a good turbine.[;)]