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Originally Posted by pre65
It's no more expensive to fill up when half full, unless visits to the fuel pump make life difficult operational wise. Do diesel stabling points not have fuel facilities.
Do diesel locos run on normal diesel fuel, or do they use red diesel. I bet their price per litre is a hell of a lot less than we pay, bloody tax. 
Whenever I see photos of steam locos there always seems to be a big enough pile of coal, or is it just me ? |
AFAIK not all stable points have fuelling lines and a loco on depot isn't earning it's keep. I saw a 66 the other day and then watched it get reported on UK-RAIL it went from Leeds -- Southampton -- Carlisle --and the last I heard it was on it's way to Cornwall via Wales
Also now fuelling is made more difficult as they can't fill up a GDRf loco at a DBS or Freightliner depot either so depot location plays a big problem at times
and I'm not sure of what they run them on I do not know of a "Railway" diesel as a-kin to the farm or boat diesels (Red or Blue) that gets less tax