New Uk Freight Loco Announced

The class 99 dual mode Co-Co freight loco is coming to the UK. Based on Staedler's EuroDual the train will have 25Kv AC overhead and class 5 diesel power

30 ordered so should start showing up in 2025

https://news.railbusinessdaily.com/...uced-to-uk-in-deal-with-beacon-rail-and-gbrf/

https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2022/04/29-stadler-bimode-class-99-locomotives.html

 

This can work on BML as the Aggregate Train from ECW or GWML

 

For a very brief second I thought it was a new loco coming to the game! Then I relised I was in the off topic section.

 

Is that it now, all 99 5 digit number sets used?

 

I believe so, but then the "class 99" was used before, for a boat (operated by BR)

 

Will these arrive before the new Class 93 Bo-Bos?

 

Class 93 start delivery next year, class 99 2025

 

There are gaps and locos which are now all scrapped or were only prototypes, plus numbers have been reused before such as the Class 43.

 

What happens when they do run out of class numbers? Will they move to a new series or reuse existing class numbers from locos no longer in service?

 

As I had mentioned before, I hopes this locomotive be available on TSW2!
It is already on Train Simulator.
It will be great!
For MSB route for example could go to the harbour industrial area too, and take freights to the mainline.
But also for other routes too.

 

Don't know how it's on TSC yet as they haven't built the first one so the spec isn't completely confirmed... Maybe an approximation

 

They're probably thinking of the Stadler EuroDual due to the obvious similarities.

 

I was talking about the Stadler Eurodual.
That is already available as DLC on Train Simulator.

The Class 99 seems to be the same model, but of course adapted to UK rail system.

Hopes in the future, when we have a modern - referring to latest generation trains - UK route available on TSW2, the Class 99 be available too.
Most probably be available as Eurodual before, to be used on a german route.
May be in the new "mysterious" one, announced on the latest Roadmap

 

Train sim world 2056 anyone…..

 

I suspect there will be a move or reusing. One of the reasons there are gaps is that some ranges are used for vehicles in units and under the old computer system a loco and MU vehicle could not have the same number. (This is why the 57 subclasses jump around /0 /3 /6 to avoid the 57xxx numbers used by Sprinters)

A few years back a new system was implemented based on UIC numbers. At the same time MU vehicles started being issued "6 digit" numbers - in reality they have 12 digits with the full UIC number being the unique identifier in the computer systems. While the 12 digit is the master record, vehicles can display the 6 digit domestic number if they only work in the UK. Some are starting to carry their full UIC number (CAF stock and the 777s) sometimes alongside the short one and sometimes just the full number with the domestic part underlined