British Rail Class EB1
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British Rail Class EB1 was an electrically powered locomotive commissioned by British Rail in England. It was an electrically powered locomotive in the pre-TOPS period and was never built extensively.
[edit] Specification
- Numbers: (NER) 3-12; (LNER) 6490-6499; (BR) 26502-26511
- Wheel arrangement: Bo-Bo
- Introduced: 1914
- Builder: North Eastern Railway
- Motors: 4x275hp, Siemens
- Total power: 1,100hp (820 KW)
- Supply: 1,500V DC Overhead
These locomotives were built to haul coal trains from the mines at Shildon to the docks at Middlesbrough. During the 1920s the coal traffic declined and some of the locomotives became surplus to requirements. In 1928 a plan was devised to convert one of them to a Diesel-electric, using a 1,000hp Beardmore diesel engine driving an English Electric generator. This plan did not come to fruition.
Electric traction on the Shildon line was discontinued in 1935 but the locomotives were retained for possible future use. Number 11 (later BR 26510) was rebuilt in 1942 for use on the Manchester-Sheffield line. Horsepower was increased from 1,100 to 1,256 and the twin pantographs were replaced by a single central one.
It was expected that all the locomotives would be similarly modified but this did not happen. In 1949, number 26510 was moved to Ilford Depot (Eastern Region) for use as a shunter but the remaining members of the class were withdrawn in 1950. Number 26510 was transferred to departmental stock (as DS100) in 1959 and withdrawn in 1963.
[edit] Sources
- The Electric Locomotives of the North Eastern Railway by K. Hoole, published by the Oakwood Press in 1988, ISBN 0 85361 367 2
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