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Maybe it could be yellow? Like this…. More photos of it on here. Especially as it will only be used in emergency situations and for Infrastructure work.
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I seem to remember that the owners choose the livery or does that only apply to steam locos?
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Yeeeeeeha! Finally! 33052…Cromptontastic….Get In! Horsted Keynes MPD.
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STONECOLDSMILE1882 started following Greater Anglia's Stadler Flirt - Class 745 & 755
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The heat generated by a fire fuelled by hydraulic fluid is intense. These type of machines tend to be built around big steel beams as the frames, which will probably be affected by this type of fire. I can’t believe for a minute that this tamper won’t end up being a write off. Such a shame. I have actually been on this one, DR 75410, a couple of years back. Sounds like no one was injured, as mentioned earlier it was the rear ( in the direction of travel) of the machine that caught fire so the crew were likely all in the front vehicle at the time. At least the BBC managed to get the terminology correct today (well done to the reporter.....maybe a secret Crank). They managed to refrain from calling the Tamper... freight carriages, or engineering carriages or worse still ‘train engineering carriages’.......funny that generally when the media report on Aviation incidents or Road Traffic ‘Accidents’ they don’t seem to suffer from the same inability to use the correct terms.
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It’s probably made harder by virtue of the fact the machine is articulated, and not separate vehicles with a pair of bogies each. From the photos of the fire it would appear the Tamping bank end was at the rear as the machine transitted back to Bridges, and it was this end that caught fire. In happier times at ECR...