101 DMU - slip sliding away

[odseybod]

I do like the way TSW2 models snow, so I've been doing most of my driving lately up north, on both the Tees Valley and Trans Pennine routes on cloudy winter days. To enjoy a better view of the scenery covered in icing sugar, the Class 101 DMU has been my weapon of choice - trouble is that they're very different between the two routes.

Whereas the Tees Valley one behaves pretty much as expected, the Trans Pennine people have clearly got a duff batch, with really bad wheelslip when trying to start on an uphlll gradient (say, from Morley station heading towards Manchester). A higher ratio and/or smaller throttle setting doesn't seem to help much, making keeping to the timetable nearly impossible - and braking's no better, being all too easy to skate through a station with everything locked, even when following the 'trickle in' style of what my rude train driver friends refer to as 'a boil in the bag drivers' (meaning those who've become a train driver in a matter of months, rather than via an umpteen year apprenticeship starting as a cleaner).

You might suggest that the Pennines have less slippery snow but that seems unlikely, as the Tees Valley is further north with more chance of lower temperatures and icier snow. The Trans-Pennine units have much the same trouble in rain, too, unlike the Tees Valley ones, and generally feel and sound what the technical maintenance handbook would describe as shagged.

Since they're allegedly the same units, with presumably the same characteristics, would it be possible to make the TP 101s as well behaved as their TV brothers?

[Stexred]

gradient on trans pennine is a lot worse on several place so that is one of the main reasons

[Ivan33]

Also "diesel legends of the great western" the dmu 101 is worse, the power seems to be very slow, the speed limiter is no more than 65mph....