Class 91 - GEC Design - Bo-Bo

• Built 1988-91 by BREL at Crewe Works.
• Thyristor control
• Supply System 25 kV ac from overhead equipment..
• GEC G426AZ Traction Motors.
• Continuous Rating 4540 kW (6090 hp), Maximum Rail Power 4700 kW (6300 hp).
• 45 t Brake Force. Air train Brakes. Rheostatic Electric Brake.
• Design Speed and Maximum Speed of 140 mph (225 kph).
• Driver-guard telephone.
• Time division multiplex (TDM) system.
• 19.40 m length over buffers. Wheel Diameter 1000 mm.
• Weight 84 t, Route Availability (RA) Index 7.
• Electric Train Heating (ETH) Index 95.
• Drop head Buckeye Couplings.

Members of class are: 91001 to 91031 and are all in Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) livery and assigned to Bounds Green depot. These locomotives are used for the GNER services from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh and Glasgow Central up the East Coast Main Line. Their maximum speed is 140 mph (225 kph), and they are known as the Intercity 225s.

Class 91 Photographs.

An unidentified Class 91 at London Kings Cross.	91011 at Glasgow Central after a long trip from London Kings Cross on the 16th August 1992. This locomotive used to be called "Terrence Cuneo."
91013 passes through Grantham station on the way to Leeds on the 13th June 1993.	91017 at Glasgow Central station on the 7th November 1992.
91024 at Edinburgh Waverley on the 8th November 1992.	The same locomotive 91024 showing the Scot's Monument on Princes Road, Edinburgh. 8th November 1992.
91029 at a wet Kings Cross on the 29th March 1992.	91031 stands at Peterborough ready to continue the journey from London Kings Cross to Glasgow. The date 13th June 1993.
91031 pulls away from Peterborough on the 13th June 1993.

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