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[QUOTE=steam for ever;51609]A new batch of locos as you say, but another issue brought up in the magazine was that the stock should be british built, and so should locos.
Completly agree, but we just have to look at the British built class 60s, the teething troubles that they had and the few that are still still in traffic are having and how old are they. Now look at the Yank crap thats going about now after 66001 came in and went through the railtrack testing programme, the rest, and the 67s came over on the boat and straight into traffic with minimum fuss.
Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of 66s and 67s,the most noisy,uncomfy dirty heaps of TIN you can get, For reliablility though they are second to none.
So if a new loco was to be built in the UK then the reliability has to be there as well.
Les
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