Class 90 - GEC Design - Co-Co

• Built 1987-90 by BREL at Crewe Works.
• Thyristor control
• Supply System 25 kV ac from overhead equipment..
• GEC G412CY separately excited frame mounted Traction Motors.
• Continuous Rating 3730 kW (5000 hp) giving a tractive effort of 95 kN (21300 lbf) at 87 mph, Maximum Rail Power 5860 kW (7860 hp) at 68.3 mph.
• 40 t Brake Force. Air train Brakes. Rheostatic Electric Brake.
• Design Speed 110 mph, Maximum Speed 110 (90/1 75) mph.
• Driver-guard telephone.
• Time division multiplex (TDM) system.
• 18.80 m length over buffers. Wheel Diameter 1156 mm.
• Weight 84.5 t, Route Availability (RA) Index 7.
• Electric Train Heating (ETH) Index 95.
• Drop head Buckeye Couplings (removed on Class 90/1).

Sub Class 90/0.

As built - members are 90001 to 90024. Used mainly on the West Coast Main Line by Virgin Rail, some of these locos have been given the Virgin Logo and colours.

Sub Class 90/1.

Mainly used for railfreight duties. Members are 90125 to 90150.

Class 90 Photographs.

A Class 90 and a Class 86 at Euston.	90008 parked by the wall at Carlisle Station on the 7th November 1992. Also in this picture is a mail carriage and 37903.
Another shot of 90008 at Carlisle on the 7th November 1992.	90013 "The Law Society" awaits with 86219 and 87002 at London Euston - 5th August 1993.
90014 at Euston Station on the 5th August 1993.	Rail Express Systems (RES) liveried 90016 and 08530 at London Kings Cross on the 13th June 1993.
90129 in German DB Livery at Leicester Depot on the 6th September 1992.	90216 hauls a container service through Stratford (Northeast London) Station. This loco has since been renumbered into the 90/1 class and was called "Crewe Electric Depot."

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