How Many Diesel Multiple Units In The UK Have Voith Hydraulic Transmissions?
This may seem to be a funny question to ask, but all will come clear later in the week.
Doing a quick search through Wikipedia finds the following trains.
- Class 150 – 135 – two-car – 2 x 213 kW
- Class 150 – 2 – three-car – 3 x 213 kW
- Class 153 – 56 – one-car – 1 x 213 kW
- Class 155 – 7 – two-car – 2 x 213 kW
- Class 156 – 114 – two-car – 2 x 213 kW
- Class 158 – 149 – two-car – 2 x 260-300 kW
- Class 158 – 23 – three-car – 3 x 260-300 kW
- Class 159 – 30 – three-car – 3 x 260-300 kW
- Class 165 – 48 – two-car – 2 x 261 kW
- Class 165 – 27 – three-car – 3 x 261 kW
- Class 166 – 21 – three-car – 3 x 261 kW
- Class 168 – 9 – two-car – 2 x 315 kW
- Class 168 – 8 – three-car – 3 x 315 kW
- Class 168 – 11 – four-car – 4 x 315 kW
- Class 170 – 41 – two-car – 2 x 315 kW
- Class 170 – 88 – three-car – 3 x 315 kW
- Class 171 – 12 – two-car – 2 x 315 kW
- Class 171 – 8 – four-car – 4 x 315 kW
- Class 175 – 27 – two-car – 2 x 340 kW
Note.
- The three fields after the train class are the number of trains, the number of cars in each train and the number andsize of engines per train.
- All trains seem to have one diesel engine per car.
- All trains seem to have the same or similar Voith transmission.
There are a total of 816 trains of various lengths.
175s are 11x 2-car and 16x 3-car.
Comment by thebusnerd | October 14, 2020 |
also you missed out the 22x 2-car 142s and 23x 2-car 143s still in service which were retrofitted with these transmissions in the 90s. also the 14x 5-car 180s and 51x 3-car 185s, which have 3-stage versions of them (as opposed to 2-stage).
Comment by thebusnerd | October 14, 2020 |
The Pacers could be converted, but we have enough now without them. I noted the 180s and 185s, but as you say they have a bigger transmission.
Comment by AnonW | October 15, 2020
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