London Underground sleet locomotives
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london-underground-sleet-locomotives-301-12044421
title:
London Underground sleet locomotives
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Sleet locomotives were redundant London Underground cars converted to help with the removal of ice that built up on the conductor rails. The main batch of eighteen tube-gauge locomotives were built between 1938 and 1941 from motor cars originally built in 1903. They were refurbished in the 1960s using equipment removed from redundant T-stock vehicles, and were joined by a pair of surface-gauge locomotives in 1961. In addition to de-icing duties, some of them were used for experiments in clearing
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London Underground de-icing locomotives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_sleet_locomotives
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2023-04-20T06:59:53Z
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