Class 43 - HST Power Car- Bo-Bo

• Built 1976-82 by British Rail Engineering Ltd (BREL) Crewe Works.
• Paxman Valenta 12RP200L Engine of 1680 kW (2250 hp) at 1500 rpm.
• Brush BA1001B Main Alternator.
• Frame mounted Brush TMH68-46 or GEC G417AZ (43124-151/180) traction motors.
• Maximum Tractive Effort of 80 kN (17980 lbf), Continuous Tractive Effort of 46 kN (10340 lbf) at 64.5 mph.
• Power at Rail of 1320 kW (1770 hp).
• Brake Force 35 t, Air train brakes.
• 17.79 m over buffers, wheel diameter 1092 mm.
• Weight 70 t, Route Availability (RA) Index 5.
• Electric Train Heating (ETH) - non standard 3-phase system.
• Maximum Speed 125 mph.
• All equipped with driver-guard telephone and fitted with luggage compartment.
• Multiple working with another similar vehicle.

Members are: 43002 to 43198.

Class 43 - High Speed Train (HST) Photographs.

A High Speed Train hammers through Ealing Broadway (West London) whilst a Class 47 goes about freight duties.	Another High Speed Train thunders through Ealing Broadway heading for London Paddington.
An HST power car at Exeter St. Davids. Sometime in January 1992.	An HST leaves St. Erth station (Cornwall) on the 2nd November 1991. St. Erth is were you change for St. Ives.
A pair of HSTs at Exeter St. Davids on a very murky February in 1992.	An InterCity 125 (HST) stands at Bristol Temple Meads - sometime in 1991.
An HST set stands at Bristol Temple Meads with a London Paddington train on the 28th November 1992.	An unidentified HST set at Bristol Temple Meads on the 13th February 1993.
43010 at Bristol Temple Meads on the 8th April 1992. 43034 was the power car at the other end of this train.	43015 hammers through Exeter St. Thomas with a train heading towards Dawlish. The 17th July 1993.
43029 arrives at Swindon with the 13:50 Swansea service on the 12th December 1992.	43029 leaves Swindon on the 12th December 1992.
Old Intercity liveried 43031 waits at London Euston on the 5th August 1993. This power car is now in the Great Western livery and is based at Bristol St. Philips Marsh Depot (PM).	43051 stands at Nottingham on the 13th June 1993.
43068 with Buffers at Southampton on the 18th March 1992. This train was a Cross Country service to Bournemouth. This unit is now in Virgin Rail livery.	43070 at Cheltenham Spa on the 24th October 1992.
43088 at Derby on the 13th June 1993.	43092 stands at Exeter St. Davids. Sometime in January 1992.
43100 and 86236 at Birmingham New Street on the 14th February 1993.	An HST leaves Bristol Temple Meads for Plymouth on the 8th April 1992. The power cars were 43136 (rear of train) and 43191.
Classic shot of HSTs at London Paddington on the 9th January 1993. This power cars are 43136 and 43027. Now the HSTs standing here would mainly be in Great Western Livery.	43143 at Bristol Temple Meads on the 11th December 1992.
A spectacular night shot of 43143 standing at Reading station on the 9th January 1993. This locomotive is still in the old Intercity livery and is based at Bristol Philips Marsh.	43159 awaits the green signal at Gloucester station on the 14th February 1993. The trackwork beyond the signals leads to Barnwood Junction - north to Birmingham and south to Bristol. This power car is currently based at Plymouth Laira.
43173 at Cardiff Central on the 13th February 1993. This shot clearly shows the bogies and equipment below the train.	43174 at Bristol Temple Meads on the 28th November 1992.
43180 and 43143 at Westbury station on the 8th April 1992.	43193 "Yorkshire Post" in the old Blue and Yellow InterCity livery stands at Exeter St. Davids on the 29th January 1992. This power car is now working for Virgin Cross Country and is named "Plymouth SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY."

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