Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Electric High-Speed Mountaineers. Express locos who tamed the Pennines. Based on the earlier EM1, themselves developed by the London & North Eastern Railway, the EM2s were the mainstay of the passenger trains along the Woodhead Electric Railway. Who would have thought they would end up pulling luxurious express trains on the European mainland?

Go check out the EM2 Society - em2ls.org.uk/electra-class-77


SOURCES AND CREDIT

Het Utrechtse Archief - https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/
Het Spoorwegmuseum - https://www.vriendennsm.nl/en/105-e-locs-serie-1500/180-e-loc-1501-tijdelijk-in-het-museum
LNER.info - er.info/locos/Electric/em2.php
Railway Archive - railwayarchive.org.uk/the-woodhead-route
Railway Matters - twsmedia.co.uk/2019/04/23/pandora-and-her-sisters-em2-class-co-co
The Great Central Railway Society - gcrsociety.co.uk

External offline sources used:
'The Great Book Of Trains' by Brian Hollingsworth & Arthur Cook, published by Salamander Books Ltd

The photo in the thumbnail of EM2/NS 1501 'Diana' is my own work.



LINKS



Discord server - discord.gg/PtekEPJ



Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty



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