A252 at Ioni, Greece. 1992.
A252 stands at Ioni with a northbound train of refrigerated vans. The freight being looped for a passenger train to pass.
The OSE class A251's were delivered as a mixed traffic design with a 1324kW rated Ganz-Pielstick engine. French manufacturer SEMT Pielstick licenced Ganz to manufacture the engines that went into these locomotives which probably accounts for why they were more reliable than some of the classes ordered from Romanian manufacturers U23A and Electroputere. That said the flat lands of Hungary were well suited to the class but the harsh working conditions and gradients of the Greek network were not. The OSE network was better suited to North American designed locomotives hence locomotives 10 years older have more than outlasted the Hungarian built class A251's.
A252 at Ioni, Greece. 1992.
A252 stands at Ioni with a northbound train of refrigerated vans. The freight being looped for a passenger train to pass.
The OSE class A251's were delivered as a mixed traffic design with a 1324kW rated Ganz-Pielstick engine. French manufacturer SEMT Pielstick licenced Ganz to manufacture the engines that went into these locomotives which probably accounts for why they were more reliable than some of the classes ordered from Romanian manufacturers U23A and Electroputere. That said the flat lands of Hungary were well suited to the class but the harsh working conditions and gradients of the Greek network were not. The OSE network was better suited to North American designed locomotives hence locomotives 10 years older have more than outlasted the Hungarian built class A251's.