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Class 370 APT-P
Scale
964 ft (293.88 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
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- Type
- Electric multiple unit (25 kV AC overhead), tilting
- Builder
- British Rail Engineering Limited, Derby
- Built
- 1977-1980
- In service
- 1980–1986
- Formation
- 14 cars: two seven-car half-sets back to back, each a driving trailer second, a trailer second, a trailer restaurant second with buffet, a trailer unclassified, a trailer first and a trailer brake first, articulated on shared bogies, then its power car; the two power cars in the middle
- Bogies
- the APT-P's articulated trailer bogies (BT11, BT11a); the APT-P's BT12 trailer bogies (the driving trailer's leading bogie, the brake trailer's inner one); the APT-P brake trailer's BT12 bogie at its inner end; the APT-P power car's motor bogies (BP17, BP17a)
- Train length
- 964 ft (293.88 m) (the cars’ lengths added)
- Car height
- 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
- Car width
- 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
- Profile
- main-line
unverified Some of these figures haven’t yet been checked against an official source or a published history. What’s in doubt ↓
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| DTS | Driving trailer second (DTS, LE201) | 70 ft 4 in21.44 m | |
| TS | Trailer second (TS, LH201) | 68 ft 11 in21.00 m | |
| TRSB | Trailer restaurant second with buffet (TRSB) (LK201) | 68 ft 11 in21.00 m | |
| TU | Trailer unclassified (TU) (LH401) | 68 ft 11 in21.00 m | |
| TF | Trailer first (TF) (LH101) | 68 ft 11 in21.00 m | |
| TBF | Trailer brake first (TBF, LJ101) | 69 ft 3 in21.10 m | |
| M | Motor (power car, LC501) | 66 ft 11 in20.40 m |
Sources
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Show the 8 sources from Wikimedia Commons, British Railways Board, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Department, R G Latham and 1 more
- Vehicle Diagram Book No. 210 for Electric Multiple Units (including A.P.T.), with the Class 318 (EE227, EE228, EC207; October 1986), Class 319 (EE233, EE234, EC209, EH234; January 1988) and Class 321 (EE236, EC210; October 1988) diagrams British Railways Board, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Department (PDF copy by J. D. Faulkner, 2012, from the book lent by Eddie Knorn; copyright BRB Residuary Ltd), 1986-1988, pp. LC501, LE201, LH101, LH201, LH401, LJ101, LK201 (PDF pp. 428-441)the DTS's and TS's side elevations: 21,440 nose to joint, 17,400 bogie centres, 4,040 nose to bogie, 2,650 and 3,500 wheelbases, 21,000 over gangways, 15,900 air spring centres, 3,510 high, 2,720 wide; BT11/BT11a and BT12 bogies
- Crewe Heritage Centre, August 2017.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Gazamp), 2017-08-12the preserved set's TBF level and abeam: the band heights, scaled by its windows, and a door with the bands carried across it.
- 370003 APT-P.jpg (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (kitmasterbloke), 2023-08-29the preserved set from the DTS's nose (three-quarter): the livery's order along the driving car and the articulated joins.
- 17.08.85 Wolverton Works APT-P set 370005.jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Phil Richards), 1985-08-17DTS 48105 in colour in 1985: the cab's yellow, black and red block, and its leading bogie (layout only).
- Rail vehicle 17103 370006 (7282729732).jpg (photograph, CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (penske666), 2012-05-26DTS 48106 three-quarter: the cab side, the door and the leading bogie's hoses and damper (layout only).
- APT-P Bogies R G Latham (apt-p.com), 2026the trailer bogies' (BT11, BT12) wheels 2 ft 7 in (780 mm) and the power car's (BP17) 2 ft 9 in (850 mm) when new; the bogies' types, axles and springs.
- APT (8920659641).jpg (photograph, CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Jim), 2013-06-01DTS 48103's side over its leading bogie, close: the louvres, the bands and the equipment covers.
- A Guide to Overhead Electrification (132787-ALB-GUN-EOH-000001, rev 10) Network Rail (prepared by Alan Baxter), February 2015, p. 39the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 15 ft 5 in (4.7 m) above rail, Network Rail's normal height
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unverified
- Round 1 draft: the dates, builder and history are not yet checked against a cited source
- The bogies: indicative, from the sheets' outlines (no abeam photograph of either)
- The band heights from a low-resolution level photograph scaled by the sheet's windows
- The trailer wheels drawn at 2 ft 7 in (780 mm), the published size when new (apt-p.com); Book 210's sheets print no wheel size and draw the treads 2 ft 4 in to 2 ft 5 in (705-745 mm); the trailer bogies' heights read off LE201 and LJ101 (set WDB370B round 6)
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