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Post by domh245 on Sept 14, 2014 18:19:05 GMT
is D barking?
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Post by domh245 on Sept 11, 2014 20:54:39 GMT
Unfortunately not. I believe that a while ago, on the official aerosoft forums, some people where petitioning them to release upgrades and DLCs. Among the requests were S stock as well as route extensions in a couple of places but the stance of the developers was that they were happy with what they had and weren't considering any upgrades. However in a couple of years, DLC may be released, or more likely a whole new sim, but for now, the answer is a no
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Post by domh245 on Sept 11, 2014 19:48:04 GMT
The just trains one is the stand-alone World Of Subways simulator - which is quite good, but very resource intensive, and kind of overpriced. Also kind of limited in that you can only drive C stock along given parts of the circle line, no free roam or scenario editing. TS2015 is AFAIK just TS2014 under a different name, indeed TS2015 can trace it's heritage easily back to rail simulator, with only fairly minor changes along the way, indeed you can still run a Rail Simulator Addon (eg Isle of Wight - a recommendation as the nearest to tube there is at the moment on the market) in TS2014. only in a couple of years when they change the game engine will things become outdated
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Post by domh245 on Sept 11, 2014 19:05:26 GMT
Very unlikely to be an official addon. But there will be the virtual district line along at some point in the forseeable future utilising D Stock and 1973 Stock, as well as battery locomotives which already exist
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Post by domh245 on Sept 10, 2014 20:34:56 GMT
Indeed about 15 minutes of the local news this evening was about crossrail - with the live links between pieces in the first 15 minutes being presented in a tunnel at Bond Steet!
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Post by domh245 on Sept 10, 2014 15:45:23 GMT
Govia currently operate Southern (including Gatwick Express) and in 2015 it will continue to operate them, although the logos might change a bit.
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Post by domh245 on Sept 9, 2014 19:03:15 GMT
I'll have a second guess at it being somewhere on the southern branch - Tooting Broadway Perhaps?
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Post by domh245 on Sept 9, 2014 16:06:26 GMT
The picture may be quite old (when was an 86 last seen at Willesden?) - maybe BR era? I suspect that it is a fairly modern photo of 86101 which is preserved in a blue livery photographed at willesden at the start/end of a railtour? I've seen other 86s and 87s at Willesden as well recently
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Post by domh245 on Sept 9, 2014 15:56:05 GMT
Angel?
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Post by domh245 on Sept 7, 2014 10:07:52 GMT
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Post by domh245 on Sept 6, 2014 19:03:03 GMT
Something that I saw in the tender available here is that they talk about cascading. It would seem that the main order is just for 5 trains for the northern, but with an extra 63 trains on option for Jubilee and Northern. That would bring repsective fleets up to 81 96TS 7 car sets (from 63) and 156 95TS 6 car sets (from 106). What is interesting especially is to see which way the possible cascade would go - When I read that, it gives the implication that the Jubilee could be the line to benefit- ie: Jubilee gets all 68 new trains, with those that were going to go to the Northern receiving the 7th car off of the 96TS, which get a refresh and have works done to make them more similar to 95TS, such as cab modifications, changing the traction packages and bogies, and go off to join the northern fleet. However, that does leave 13 extra 96TS trailers left over, unless there are 13 96 which remain on the Jubilee? That would leave 68 trains on the Jubilee (net increase of 5) and 169 on the Northern. That's just my speculative reading of it though, and probably more complicated than necessary
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Post by domh245 on Sept 6, 2014 16:02:16 GMT
They do have "human interventions" and just to give an idea of how obsessive the Japanese Railways are with punctuality, when such an event occurs, the family of the person involved will often end up (partialy) footing the bill for the delay
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Post by domh245 on Sept 6, 2014 15:39:55 GMT
Its quite impressive that they have such high frequencies but with 40 second long dwell times! I do somewhat expect that their signalling is much advanced that even the 4 aspect signalling on NR and much more that the equivalent 3 aspect system on LU - I understand that this line has in-cab signalling. I suspect that the main reason that they can get away with manual driving still is because the drivers are trained to very high standards - that is not to say that drivers in britain aren't, it is more that the Japanese train drivers are trained so much more (800 hours or so) and the standards are unbelievably high - stopping with 10cm accuracy etc.
When you look at it though, from the first train starting to leave to the next one arriving, there is a gap of 75 seconds, and in the course of that almost 9 minute video, there are 4 trains, which you can often see on the SSL during the peaks - Just saying...
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Post by domh245 on Sept 5, 2014 15:06:57 GMT
All of those things you describe also correspond with a nice new clean sticker being put on an existing sign. Seeing as that sign would have been installed back in the 60s (?) so inevitably would have become filthy, and standards such as what font is used on signs would probably have changed as well. Whilst it does look like Photoshop, it is very easily just a sticker
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Post by domh245 on Sept 4, 2014 15:25:23 GMT
I suspect that the £11 fare is going to be the cheapest. That would be on a Thameslink service (currently FCC but that franchise is changing over to thaneslink before December) so it'll either by a 377 in purple, a 319, or quite possibly a new class 387. As for the option to select who to buy tickets from, that makes no difference at all unless it is TOC specific (eg an FCC only ticket) so if it is an advance ticket (judging bu the fare it probably is) so you could pick any TOC as they all go onto the same system and can be picked up at most stations - I personally would go for southern unless you already have an account with another TOC
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Post by domh245 on Sept 2, 2014 15:24:23 GMT
It was the train that I used to get - (almost) every school day from September 2008 until May 2013 - although back in 2008 I think it was a different number (I think it was 20?) but was still the 0721 departure from Wimbledon to Barking. I even always used to sit in the same seat every day unless someone had already pinched it - which I greeted by scowling at them - which was the single seat on the Left Hand Side of the train, towards the East/North End of the odd UNDM (or equivalent in a double ended set). I eventually stopped because I was getting bored of getting to school an hour early with nothing to do - and switched to a later service to Edgware Road - the fact that the C stocks were due to get dispatched shortly had nothing to do with it *shifty eyes*
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Post by domh245 on Sept 2, 2014 14:10:27 GMT
I quite like the idea of tramlink being valid (something that I would properly recognise!)
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Post by domh245 on Sept 2, 2014 7:55:06 GMT
I think that it is train 121, which leaves Wimbledon at 0721 going to barking
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Guards
Sept 1, 2014 22:45:33 GMT
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Post by domh245 on Sept 1, 2014 22:45:33 GMT
Certainly not on the NLL/WLL or ELL. I think that there aren't any guards on the DC lines either. There may be some on the goblin, but I'm not sure.
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Post by domh245 on Sept 1, 2014 7:47:39 GMT
I suppose that because electric point motors have more parts than a pneumatic motor, it would inevitably been liable to a higher failure rate (based on my reasoning). I'm basing this on the fact that a pneumatic point motor will have 2 actuating pistons either side of the 'active' rail and a valve connecting it to the supply to alter which chamber the air is sent into, whilst an electric version will have a servo, the control wires, gear on the motor and a pinion connected to the rails.
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Post by domh245 on Aug 30, 2014 10:00:37 GMT
I'll take a punt at willseden junction?
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Post by domh245 on Aug 29, 2014 12:34:22 GMT
I very much doubt that there are any halts (other than staff ones) on the NR network in the London area - anywhere that has a station will ensure that the station gets used enough to get proper hours. Whilst tram stops are nominally request stops, they do tend to stop at all of them, even if it is just stopping, unlocking the doors (not opening) waiting a couple of seconds, locking the doors again and shooting off. The last time that I saw a tram sailing through a tram stop because no-one had pressed any buttons was about 3 years ago late on a Sunday night - and I suspect that the late night trams probably still do a similar thing, but most other times will do what I described above
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Post by domh245 on Aug 28, 2014 12:05:22 GMT
Very nice indeed. It was interesting to see what the treadplates looked like when you had cleaned them. Unfortunately for me though, seeing them that clean just doesn't seem right - C Stock treadplates should always be that dirty old grey colour! Out of interest, do you know which cars the treadplates were salvaged from?
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Post by domh245 on Aug 26, 2014 17:59:12 GMT
The TRT (or TRV - Track Recording Vehicle (they're the same thing, just two different names for the same train)) can run only on the Central line where it is driven manually under the ATP. It cannot run on any other ATO line and never has been able to. Its replacement - the AIT (Asset Inspection Train) - is set to be fitted with all the necessary equipment for lal lines and should be able to run everywhere but, again, I suspect it'll need to be driven manually wherever it goes. Right, I see. But doesn't the ATO operation on the whole have to be switched off for the day/night when the TRT is recording? Nope. ATO is merely a computer that drives the train automatically, ATP is the rough type of computerised signalling system which allows this to happen. So provided that it has the right interface to pick up the ATP signals in terms of antennas, decoders and displays (in much the same way conventional stock has to have a functional tripcock to operate at line speed) - then it can run on that line, albeit driven manually. It may have the effect of causing some ATO trains to go slower because obviously it would be going slower, and the following train has to be a safe distance behind. Currently, the TRT only has central line APT and tripcocks fitted, so it can only run on conventional line. The new AIT will have Tripcocks, central line APT, and seltrac s40 (and possibly the victoria line DTG-R system - could someone confirm please?), so it will be able to operate on those lines. I do think that some poor wording by myself is probably to blame somewhat for the confusion - Instead of ATO line, I should really have said APT resignalled line.
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Post by domh245 on Aug 26, 2014 14:01:09 GMT
It may have just been a standard fire alarm test (just the inspector sands bit - not the evacuation message) or equally a false alarm. I suppose that if the point of an inspector sands message is just to alert the staff and not worry the passengers, then having all of the staff on the platform suddenly leg it for an exit, or otherwise start acting differently, that would then worry the passengers - rather defeating the point of the message
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Post by domh245 on Aug 25, 2014 15:18:34 GMT
Assuming that you took a possession of the line, and secured all the routes, then you probably could run a 508 in parallel with a 313 down to moorgate. I'm not too sure how you would get it down there, as the 508 doesn't have the pantograph and associated gubbins to work on the OLE north of the tunnel. You could drag it Dead-In-Tow, but that would wreck any timetables, but if the AC is rectified before being sent between units, then in theory it could work, but I'm not sure in what form the power goes through the coupling block!
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Post by domh245 on Aug 24, 2014 17:17:03 GMT
My understanding of Rheostatic braking is that you are disconnecting the motor from the source and then reconnecting it across a resistor, using the motor as a generator to remove kinetic energy from the wheel and convert it into heat energy, I suppose it is similar in that you are taking the energy that is there are wasting it to slow yourself down. As for the OP, I suspect that it isn't part of the training. You would more likely get taught what to do if an incident happened, but in terms of accident mitigation, you would just get told - slam the brake on. I suspect the reason that they don't get told to reverse the motors is because it is probably pretty bad for the motors to have the field change across them, and would probably destroy the motors, and quite possibly harm the passengers, although if you are heading towards another train closing at 40mph ruining the motors probably won't be your biggest concern...
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Post by domh245 on Aug 19, 2014 19:48:34 GMT
Its not that bad rincew1nd! I mean one of the bidders for TPE has the same parent companies as GTR, and indeed one of the Northern bidders has the same parent company which has won TSGN! The other 2 TPE ones both have experience in long range operations. Likewise for Northern Proper, serco aren't anywhere to be seen, so if abellio do get it, it'll probably not be purple, and then, Arriva...
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Post by domh245 on Aug 19, 2014 10:33:10 GMT
From the BBC articleBy the looks of it, it a regulated fare is one that set by the government, so your "bog-standard" ticket if you will. I believe unregulated tickets would include tickets such as Southern Daysave and similar tickets which are TOC initiatives. This will be good for the Open Access Operators on the ECML, who won't be forced to increase their prices, bringing them more customers in the face of the higher TOC fares
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Post by domh245 on Aug 18, 2014 21:05:08 GMT
Are you sure it was 5521? According to our records, 5521 was withdrawn way back in January. Might it have been 6721, which was dispatched by road on the 24th of July, which would match up with your account. If it was indeed 6721, then it would have been off to C.F. Booths in Rotherham to be scrapped Ps. Welcome to the forum!
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