Class '73' Factfile

Power type: Electro-diesel
6 - 73/0s built by British Railways at Eastleigh Works
43 - 73/1 built by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry, Newton Le Willows
Built: 1965, 1967-1969. 49 examples in total
Total Scrapped: 10

Configuration:
AAR wheel diameter: B-B
UIC Classification of locomotive axle arrangements: Bo'Bo
Commonwealth Bo-Bo

Gauge: 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Wheel diameter: 3 ft 4 in (1.016 mm)
Length: 16.36m (53 ft 8 in)

Loco Weight:
73/0: 76.30 long tons (77.52 t; 85:46 short tons)
73/1: 76.80 long tons (78.03 t; 86.02 short tons)

Electric Systems: 660-750 V DC Third Rail using Contact shoe as pickup

Prime Mover:
English Electric 4SRKT MK II
2 x Cummins QSK19 (73951 and 73952)
MTU 8V 4000 R43L (73961 - 73971)

Traction motors:
73/0: EE 542A
73/1: EE 546/1B

Train brakes: Vacuum Air and Electro-Pneumatic

Class 73

73001 leads CIG set 1499 in a 5 coach mode+31466 on the 1430 Parkend to Lydney junction at Whitecroft 20th April 2011
73001 passes St Marys Halt with the 1607 Parkend to Lydney junction on 28th July 2012
73107 leads 73136, 73212 and 66792 at Latchmere junction woking the 0O19 Peterborough to Tonbridge on 30 June 2020 SouthLondonline, Class73, GBRf
73107 tnt 33012 on the 5Z82 Eastleigh Alstom to London Waterloo arriving at London Waterloo on the 17 August 2019

73107 tnt 73109 5Z01 Cricklewood to Derby RTC at Normanton north of Loughborough on the 2nd June 2013
73107 tnt 73138 on the 1Z13 Derby to Crewe at Willington on the Uttoxeter line on the 26th June 2014
73107+73119 on the 3Y74 Tonbridge West yard circular via Dover Priory at Capel le Ferne nearing Dover on the 18th February 2018
73107+73119 on the 1315 East Grinstead to Sheffield Park at Freshfield on the 2nd April 2017, swapping diagrams with 50049

73107+73136+73201+73962 at Tonbridge yard on the 1st April 2016
73107 leads 73138 tnt 37409 on the 1Z26 Hither Green to Derby RTC Network Rail test train at Wistow on the 30th January 2013.
73107+73212 on the 3W75 1436 Tonbridge West Yard circular via London Victoria twice and Sole Street passing Grosvenor carriage sidings on the 16th October 2016
73109 crosses Riddlesdown Viaduct on the 17th January 2008 hauling 3417 to the Bluebell Railway at East Grimstead The working is the 1Z66 1050 Woking to East Grimstead at Riddlesdown near Woldingham

73109 leading 73201 working 3W74 Tonbridge west yard circular via Dover returning at Tudeley on 7 November 2020 Southeastermainline, Class73, GBRf, RHTT
73109 leading 73201 working 3W91 Tonbridge west yard circular via Seaford at Bishopstone Halt, Tide Mills on 6 November 2020
73109 tnt 73141 on the 6Y51 Slade Green to Tonbridge at Teston on the 26th November 2017
73109 tnt 73201 on the 1Q58 Hither Green to Hither Green departing Tonbridge on the 29th August 2013

73109+66721 at Tonbridge west yard on the 9th December 2017
73110 tnt 20154 on the 1D10 Loughborough to Ruddington at Stanford on Soar on the 29th September 2013
73119 on the 1439 Corfe to Swanage at Corfe Common on the 12th May 2019
73119 tnt 73201 on the 3Q01 Derby RTC to Derby RTC at Findern on the 17th January 2015

73119 tnt 73213 on the 3W90 0329 Tonbridge west yard circular via Seaford, Brighton, Willesden, Tulse Hill, Uckfield and Horsham at Riddlesdown viaduct on the 10th October 2016 going towards EG 2
73119+73107 on the 3Y74 Tonbridge West yard circular going to Dover Priory to reverse at Abbotscliffe Tunnel, Capel le Ferne on the 18th February 2018
73119+73107 on the 3Y74 Tonbridge West yard circular returning from Dover at Abbotscliffe Tunnel at Capel le Ferne on the 18th February 2018
73119+73107 on the 1610 Sheffield Park to East Grinstead at Freshfield on the 1th April 2017