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Originally Posted by class47
"what about 75 ? I've heard that this could have been for 26000 Tommy or a super-electro diesel not built ?"
The Southern Region under its original plans for the Bournemouth electrification scheme wanted build a new 3000hp/600hp electro-diesel, but as the scheme was refined so they came round to the idea of converting 71s to become Class 74 electro-diesels.
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Hi,
I think you are correct on both counts, I read somewhere that they had originally classified Tommy as 75 but soon after added it to the ranks of Class 76, I would have thought that they should have given it a sub-class 76/0 and the rest 76/1, as it is slightly different.
Later the super-electro-diesel was suggested, and given the Class 75,but didn't get off the drawing board, or possibly didn't even get onto the drawing board.