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Post by 1938 on Jun 22, 2009 0:36:29 GMT
Does anyone here know if there was any electronic indication to alert the guard that a door was not closed on the hand worked door stock.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 6:33:37 GMT
No. The doors did not have to be closed anyway. In hot weather, the passengers left them open for the ventilation.
Just like Sydney some 20 years ago, with its handworked door stock.
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Post by Phil on Jun 22, 2009 14:56:30 GMT
No. The doors did not have to be closed anyway. In hot weather, the passengers left them open for the ventilation.  (4th time for this pic now!!) |
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Post by metman on Jun 22, 2009 17:31:27 GMT
Some early tube stock did have electric locks and swing doors. As you could imagine this made them slow. The 1912 CLR and LER/LNWR joints stocks were notable and the 1920ts was also going to have them but they went for air doors eventually (thankfully).
Finally, the 1912 motors were converted to air doors with the rest of the 1903 CLR stock and the joint trains were scrapped in 1930.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 18:28:46 GMT
Not Underground, but the SNCF Inox (stainless steel) stock has similar doors. Rattling along the beach fronts of the Cote d'Azur, sitting by open doors on a sunny day at 60mph - bliss!
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Post by metman on Jun 22, 2009 18:39:19 GMT
Oh yeah, they were great. Misses and I were in Cannes a couple of years back, and went to Antibes on them! They were wicked little push-pull trains!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2009 20:49:15 GMT
It may be the 4th time for that picture but it is always worth seeing again!
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