Hello Alec!
Thursday May 22 1997 19:49, Alec Cameron posted a message to Derek Brice:
 AC> Can you tell us- top speed of Le Shuttle, and how high and how wide
 AC> are the cars. Give it in feet not meters, and give our hosts a
 AC> terrible surprise! Don't tell 'em too much, just wait for the
 AC> arguments......
 AC> Is Le Shuttle a two terminal run, or are there other stops?
The locos make around 20 single journeys a day. They work trains of up to 
400
tons at speeds of up to 140km/h. Gradients are up to 1 in90. Each Shuttle 
train
is about 700 yards long - approaching half a mile.
There are three conditions to be met with regard to emergency sitiations:
1. If a traction package is isolated on one bogie on one of the locos they
still have to be able to restart on a 1 in 90 grade.
2. If one loco fails completely (there is one at each end) the other must be
able to work the train out of the tunnel, albiet at reduced speed.
3. If a whole train fails completely, the following one must be able to push 
it
out of the tunnel.
There's a little bit of info. Not too much. :)
Oh, and for your original question - they are each 26m long (that's 83.7 
feet).
Single deck wagons weigh 63 tonnes, and doubvle deck ones (for cars with roof
racks or coaches or minibuses) are about 3 tonnes heavier.
Regards,
Ian
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