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> I mean surely the actual carriage of the train can be reused, but with just the engine refitted. Vivarail (http://www.vivarail.co.uk/ http://www.vivarail.co.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
> I mean surely the actual carriage of the train can be reused, but with just the engine refitted.
Vivarail (http://www.vivarail.co.uk/ http://www.vivarail.co.uk/) are doing almost exactly this in the UK with late-70s London Underground trains, fitting modern electronics and Ford truck engines as generators for the electric motors. I think it's a solid idea.
- takno 10y agoHave Vivarail managed to find any customers yet? From an engineering point of view what they knocked together looked quite good, but for the UK market right now it's just a disaster. You can't spend billions upgrading London trains, and then suggest knocking together some franken-pacer out of London's scraps to replace the terrible units in the north and west-country.