Does anyone know if 8010 had both fixed multiple unit cables replaced by sockets or just one?
I have one photo of 8010 (loco profile) but have found no others that show the other end of the loco.
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Does anyone know if 8010 had both fixed multiple unit cables replaced by sockets or just one?I have January 1991 and July 1993 photos of the No1 end of 8010 (assuming radiator fan is at the No2 end?), with a replacement MU socket. Paint mismatch suggests this happened after its Bicentennial repaint.
I have one photo of 8010 (loco profile) but have found no others that show the other end of the loco.
I have January 1991 and July 1993 photos of the No1 end of 8010 (assuming radiator fan is at the No2 end?), with a replacement MU socket. Paint mismatch suggests this happened after its Bicentennial repaint.
A July 1993 photo of 8040 shows it still carrying a fixed cable; I can't tell which end of the loco.
It may have been done as a quick fix or something to damaged fixed MU cables at the time, it might have been quicker to install the MU socket than to add a new fixed cable to them, if this was the case then it is possible that it might have had a MU socket one end and a fixed MU cable at the other at some time in it's life.
It may have been done as a quick fix or something to damaged fixed MU cables at the time, it might have been quicker to install the MU socket than to add a new fixed cable to them, if this was the case then it is possible that it might have had a MU socket one end and a fixed MU cable at the other at some time in it's life.
You would really need two photos taken on the same day or thereabouts anyway to confirm that it had MU sockets both ends at that particular time. To keep a locomotive in service was the main thing and a quick fix like this was not uncommon.
Well does anyone know the actual reason for the change over as outlined by Hanovale, otherwise we are all speculating are we not.
The fact that I got one of the two numbers right is pleasing.
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