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Post by countryman on Apr 6, 2017 8:02:53 GMT
As far as I know, all of the OBB locos of class 1016,1116 and 1216, recent OBB passenger coaches and DB ICEs have disc brakes. I dont remember seeing any clasp brakes. What I am aware of is that approach speeds are very high, and there is frequently a stench of burnt brake pads.
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Post by countryman on Apr 5, 2017 21:06:23 GMT
Interesting re changing travel patterns and their reasons. Having used the westbound district line for twenty years of an evening, I note the following: from Central London (Westminster or Embankment) nine times out of ten one ends up standing until Parsons Green or Putney Bridge. Once upon a time Victoria saw a net exit of passengers, now its flat or an add. Also, other than people swapping to the Piccadilly, no one alights at South Kensington or Gloucester Road (commuters priced out of the area?) and many more people get on Wimbledon branch trains at Earls Court than get on. Meanwhile, circle line trains leaving Westminster are much more lightly loaded than in the past, especially outside the summer tourist season. Could you clarify what you mean about Wimbledon trains at Earl's Court.
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Post by countryman on Apr 3, 2017 14:32:37 GMT
I can't help feeling that we are way off topic here!!! Sorry, mods!
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Post by countryman on Apr 3, 2017 8:28:23 GMT
I would think that driving on the wrong side of the road would demand more attention than working out what 1500 feet is in yards! Exactly!
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Post by countryman on Apr 3, 2017 6:49:56 GMT
It takes an age to divide 15 by 3? When you are driving on a busy Interstate I don't necessarily wish to be trying to do mental arithmetic!!!
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Post by countryman on Apr 1, 2017 19:30:19 GMT
I passed West Ruislip on Thursday; there was a maroon class 20 outside one of the sheds. I would have replied earlier but I didn't recognise WER.
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Post by countryman on Mar 31, 2017 15:27:27 GMT
There are no booked reversers at Moorgate that I know off, certainly none Ex Uxbridge. Moorgate is handy for late running Mets as around 10 Minutes of late running can be recovered by reversing there. I have no idea where it had arrived from, but the train left as an all stations to Uxbridge.
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Post by countryman on Mar 31, 2017 15:22:01 GMT
What was really annoying at about 1300 was the total lack of announcement, and the confusion of any staff, about what was going on. A lot of mystified people were hanging around at Leytonstone. Also the TRT was in a queue of Hainault divertees, labelled "special", which mystified them even more. Loughton was fairly gummed up with trains, and it seemed a bit difficult to get trains out of the 3 platform roads. With the cancellation of route 167 north of Loughton, and the 418 being only hourly, there were plenty of disgruntled passengers about, too. TRT?
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Post by countryman on Mar 31, 2017 8:19:11 GMT
I was in London yesterday, and I wanted to travel from Aldgate to Neasden. So I got on the first Circle Line train, and at Moorgate there was a Met train in the bay platform, so I changed onto it. This was at ~16.15. My question is, is this common, or timetabled or rare occurrence?
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Post by countryman on Mar 29, 2017 19:54:19 GMT
The RT/RTLs at the start have white upper deck window surrounds. They stopped painting new ones in this style ~1950, but some may have been running a little later before repainting.
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Post by countryman on Mar 28, 2017 17:12:19 GMT
Americans use the Metric system for scientific purposes, just like everyone else. They simply don't use them when they are culturally inappropriate, such as for speed limits, or buying sausages. It wouldn't be too bad if they used yards, as at least it is a reasonable approximation to metres/meters, but it takes an age to figure out 'works in 1500 feet'
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Post by countryman on Mar 6, 2017 17:16:52 GMT
Apparently the 59ts stock was fitted with a 'motor generator alternator' set, the 62ts was fitted with a 'motor alternator rectifier' set. The two types could apparently be coupled and operated together, but I have no idea if this actually happened.
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Post by countryman on Feb 23, 2017 9:52:50 GMT
Kingeswel, think it's an RT! Looks like I best stick to the trains then Yes it is an RT, RT3871.
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Post by countryman on Feb 21, 2017 8:46:30 GMT
No, the Victoria Line was done the other way round. The new Invensys/DTG-R signalling was overlaid on top of the old signalling, with interlocking etc still provided by the old signalling. This meant the 09 stock could run alongside the 67s Believe it or not it is being considered by 4LM to have the trains fitted with CBTC Sorry! We are back in the land of the unexplained acronyms. At least, this means nothing to me!
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Post by countryman on Feb 20, 2017 12:59:36 GMT
Sorry! Could an admin correct the spelling in the heading please!
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Post by countryman on Feb 18, 2017 9:01:49 GMT
Does Wuppertal count?
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Post by countryman on Feb 17, 2017 7:41:10 GMT
R stock was single-ended, with 2-car east end units and 4-car west end units (the latter reformed in 1971 to be either 3- or 5-car, when uncoupling was abolished and all trains ran as 7-car all day). If the R stock was reformed into 3 or 5 car units, how did they run 7 car trains?
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Post by countryman on Feb 17, 2017 7:37:08 GMT
Perhaps not quite relevant here but I remember seeing (at Basingstoke I think)double headed Class 73s hauling eight coaches (2x4TC?) possibly at the time when the 4REPs were being withdrawn. Am I suffering from senile fantasy? Or were such trains ever operated? No, this is not fantasy, Many combinations were used, and Class 73s were certainly used to push and pull TCs to and from Bournemouth.
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Post by countryman on Feb 16, 2017 19:26:17 GMT
The 4TCs were provided for the Waterloo to Weymouth line, which was elecrified only as far as Bournemouth. When the train left Waterloo it consisted of 2 x 4TC, and pushed by a 4REP unit. These units looked like the 4BEP and $CEP sets operating to Brighton, but whereas on each of these there was only one powered car in the middle of the set, the REPs had 2 power cars, one at each end. As on leaving Waterloo the power was at the back, there was a lot of slack in the couplings and if travelling in the front car, it could be a rough start. The trains travelled to Bournemouth, where a class 33 was attached at the Weymouth end, and either one or two TC sets were pulled to Weymouth. On return the TC or TCs were propelled by the 33 to Bournemouth, where they were coupled up behind the REP to travel to Bournemouth. The most interesting period was in the early nineties, when the line was elecrified to Weymouth and the REPs were slowly taken out of service to have their electics rebuilt into the class 442s. One REP provided tthe motors for 2 442s. Whilst this was going on the variety of trains was incredible.
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Post by countryman on Feb 16, 2017 18:00:45 GMT
No, the trains always ran as a six car train with a 4 car unit to the weat, and a 2 car unit to the east. Depending on the stock there may not have been a cab between the unis. When they needed an eight car train a second 2 car unit was coupled at the east end. It was not possible to couple a 2 car unit at the weat end for two reasons. Forstly the west end was not fitted with auto couplers, and also, even if that were possible, the control wiring was handed so you could only couple A cars to D cars. Turning a two car unit would have meant coupling A to A or D to D. Later stocks do not have this issue as they can be coupled A to A or D to D, but this, as far as I know, was after this kind of uncoupling ceased. I see thanks for that explanation on the stock and A-D etc most interesting, would a eight car ever had two cars taken off? Now if it was only the east that coupling/uncoupling took place why did they have a calling on signal for the west. They routinely coupled and uncoupled for rush hour services. I remember watching it with my grandfather at Ealing Broadway. Coupling and uncoupling was carried out in the platform, and there was no cab at the east end. Don't know whether they drove using a panel in the second car.
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Post by countryman on Feb 16, 2017 17:04:31 GMT
No, the trains always ran as a six car train with a 4 car unit to the weat, and a 2 car unit to the east. Depending on the stock there may not have been a cab between the unis. When they needed an eight car train a second 2 car unit was coupled at the east end. It was not possible to couple a 2 car unit at the weat end for two reasons. Forstly the west end was not fitted with auto couplers, and also, even if that were possible, the control wiring was handed so you could only couple A cars to D cars. Turning a two car unit would have meant coupling A to A or D to D. Later stocks do not have this issue as they can be coupled A to A or D to D, but this, as far as I know, was after this kind of uncoupling ceased.
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Post by countryman on Feb 16, 2017 16:05:44 GMT
On the District up to R stock, it was not possible to turn cars or units. The two car units were always at the east end.
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Post by countryman on Feb 10, 2017 11:13:04 GMT
HTIOI?
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Post by countryman on Feb 9, 2017 22:06:16 GMT
Hong Kong's system is very good - nice and clean at all times - frequent trains - reasonable fares - and of course new platform safety screens on every platform face - carefully retrofitted between 1998 and 2011 to all stations on the MTR (The KCR appears to be next in line for the works). Sorry. MTR? KCR?
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Post by countryman on Feb 9, 2017 10:52:27 GMT
In the past few years I have visited Chicago, Berlin (fascinating system - a must-see at Wittenbergplatz station is the London Underground roundel sign, given to them by LT),Vienna, Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris. Hamburg is next in May. While you are in Hamburg, don't miss the largest model railway in the world in one of the old warehouses. You may need to book on-line. I'm told they have built a wall round the American section!
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Post by countryman on Feb 9, 2017 10:09:40 GMT
No-one has mentioned Boston. Three metro style lines, which are really showing age. Also the strange Green Line, using trams with a strange underground section, street running, and some of the outer sections like a traditional railway. I like your use of the word "strange" twice. Puts me in mind of something Victorian or Edwardian; and also that first great Caleb Carr novel "The Alienist". Perhaps I should have used 'singular' like Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett version).
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Post by countryman on Feb 9, 2017 9:07:33 GMT
No-one has mentioned Boston. Three metro style lines, which are really showing age. Also the strange Green Line, using trams with a strange underground section, street running, and some of the outer sections like a traditional railway.
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Post by countryman on Feb 8, 2017 15:11:51 GMT
The only unusual one is Cairo. How is it unusual?
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Post by countryman on Feb 8, 2017 13:44:02 GMT
The New York subway is very......functional. It certainly doesn't have the same feeling of safety that the London Underground gives you. All the stations are dark and grotty, even the above-ground ones, which seem to have the minimum amount of work done to them. Although it is functional, all unpained stainless steel and plastic seat, I didn't feel particularly uneasy. But then, most of my travel was Manhatten, Queens, Coney Island and the A Train to Howard Beach for JFK. What I was impressed by was the 4 track layout, enabling some of the journeys to be considerably speeded up. Also, we arrived on Sunday so our trip on the A Train from Howard Beach to Columbus Circle was actually partly via the J train route. The other thing I wasn't too keen on was the Stars and Stripes on every car. Come to that, I'm not too keen on it being plastered over so many Union Pacific diesels.
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Post by countryman on Feb 8, 2017 13:34:55 GMT
Only 4 light Injuries treated by LAS, thankfully it was in a platform at the time. LAS, London Ambulance Service?
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