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Post by norbitonflyer on Feb 3, 2018 17:21:15 GMT
Erring on the side of caution:
TOC - Train Operating Company, of which examples include: GA - Greater Anglia GVT - GoVia Thameslink Railway (more usually known as GTR) LO - London Overground SWT - (former) South West Trains SWR - South Western Railways (replaced SWT in August 2017) TfL Rail - precursor operation to Crossrail
BIL, BEL, SUB, CIG, VEP, PEP - the Southern Region codes respectively for classes 401, 403 (Brighton Belle), 405, 421, 423 and 445/446 BR - British Railways (as was) ERM - Electric Railway Museum NRM - National Railway Museum ORR - Office of Rail Regulation RM - type code of the original Routemaster bus designed in the 1950s: not to be confused with the "New Routemaster" pastiche, which has the type code "LT" ROSCO - Rolling Stock Company (who lease trains to TOCs) TfL - Transport for London TPWS - Train Protection & Warning System - a system for preventing/mitigating over-runs of signals. TS - tube stock VOSE - presumably the VSOE - Venice-Simplon-Orient Express: upmarket landcruise experience
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Post by norbitonflyer on Feb 3, 2018 8:27:41 GMT
DMUs were used occasionally if no EMU was available, but I don't think the line was actually de-energised
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 31, 2018 15:17:50 GMT
Why does this document, which refers to the delivery of the first class 345 to Ilford in December 2016, have a date stamp of.... 8 February 2016I thought I'd just ask ?? Have you never written the wrong year on anything in the first few weeks of the year? I wrote 2017 on a form only this morning.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 26, 2018 21:45:45 GMT
Its worth noting that this was during the evening peak so how they could justify taking a train out of service during this time I don't know By the time it could get back to central London the peak would be over.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 26, 2018 13:00:16 GMT
I visited Richmond station once in 1985 when someone dropped me off and I returned to central Sydney. From memory, it was a short trip on a DMU, and I had to change somewhere where the wires stopped. Wikipedia says the line was electrified as far as Riverstone in 1975, and electrification was extended the last six stops to Richmond in 1991. Between those dates a dmu shuttle ran between Riverstone and Richmond, using the 1920s-vintage "Tin Hares" until 1984.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 24, 2018 17:07:53 GMT
If you can afford the time it may be easier to change to the Jubilee at Wembley Park - the Jubilee trains are less likely to be completely full there. (Indeed if you are having to let two or three Jubilee trains go at Finchley Road changing at Wembley might actually be quicker)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 23, 2018 16:17:04 GMT
The reports state that the train was a "new Waratah" train. Altrhough not brand new, the Waratah fleet is (according to Wikipedia) the newest on Sydney's suburban network, being between 3 and 7 years old, with more on order. This one was, according to Wikipedia, No A42 - numerically close to the middle of the 78-strong fleet - so it is presumably about five years old.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 23, 2018 14:01:12 GMT
The three District line stations mentioned are in the open air, as opposed to Moorgate. Could the delay be because, unless the motorman fell ill he/she could see the buffer stops and it was presumed they would brake and stop accordingly? Just a thought. I would guess that, plus the less severe consequences of an over-run at those locations, plus the need to co-ordinate with BR's signalling system, were all factors. Are the 313s fitted with tripcocks, or is Moorgate the only deep level terminus on London never to have been fitted with "Moorgate Control"? (The second Morpeth derailment occured because "Morpeth Control", which has an AWS ramp installed on the approach to an abrupt drop in line speed, had only been installed in the northbound approach to the 14-chain (285m) radius right-angle bend after the original derailment occured fifteen years earlier - the stepwise drops in the other direction didn't meet the criteria as none of them individually involved a 33% drop in speed. )
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 23, 2018 10:20:46 GMT
No trainstop protection was installed at Richmond before the 1987 over-run . Any reason why not? The line was BR owned but that didn't stop trainstops being fitted elsewhere.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 23, 2018 7:48:11 GMT
Something which cannot happen on the underground, all terminal platforms are protected with tripcock/trainstop arrangements to ensure trains do not do mere then 10mph in these platforms. It didn't stop a D stock train mounting the buffers at Richmond one day in c1990.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 22, 2018 12:15:08 GMT
I cant imagine where both the networkers and 376s would be redeployed! The Networkers are getting on a bit - they would be nearly 30 by the time any new trains could be delivered. 376s are Electrostars and could well find a use boosting existing Electrostar fleets, for example by displacing the 313s and 455s on Southern (Note that the 378s on the Overground are also Electrostars...........)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 20, 2018 15:27:36 GMT
What are they coded in the other direction? Displaying Edgware Road when they are outside going to HSK would be a bit confusing.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 17, 2018 13:53:28 GMT
Even if it were linked to the doors (front or back?), I understand it is linked to the doors. There is a ten second delay after the doors open before the destination is announced, and after a further ten seconds the "hold very tight please" announcement comes on. Apparently the average dwell time at a stop is twenty seconds. (I assume that's a mean - reports suggest the median is somewhat shorter, but then who's average? (The vast majority of the population have more than the average number of eyes)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 16, 2018 18:14:06 GMT
A-cars can be found in the middle of trains, in which case one of the doors will not open because it is the door to the "spare" cab (and won't be painted red).
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 16, 2018 8:11:33 GMT
the automated announcements on each platform at Shepherd's Bush Market repeatedly contradicted each other (about whether there were delays or not on the District iirc). Maybe there were delays on the branch through Hammersmith (only relevant to s/b passengers at Shepherds Bush market) but not on the Edgware Road branch (only relevant to n/b passengers)?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 13, 2018 23:57:50 GMT
an area that ironically has been laced with railways since the 1800's but has had poor connections due the industrial history of the area. It might have been cheaper just to put Queenstown Road and Battersea Park stations on the Tube Map - although QTR in particular needs a bit lot of sprucing up. (There have been grand proposals in the past to replace the interchange at Clapham Junction with a Battersea Central, incorporating both BPk and QTR, as well as platforms on the Overground and South Eastern lines that pass across the site, allowing the closure of some platforms at Clapham Junction to improve alignments, and therefore speeds, through the area)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 13, 2018 19:42:35 GMT
Does the T5 extension not count? Not as long as the NLE, but closer in scale than the Jubilee extension was.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 11, 2018 17:59:20 GMT
The two sections of Merseyrail (loop and link) are physically separate except for a connection at Liverpool Central that carries no passenger services. Does that count?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 11, 2018 17:55:41 GMT
I can’t think (maybe you will) of any company that only operated trains and didn’t also own a railway. What about Pullman services? The Surrey Iron Railway and (I think) the Stockton & Darlington were originally "open access", (based on the same model as the canal companies) so the operators on those lines didn't own the railway. And private owner wagons have always been with us.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 11, 2018 16:39:47 GMT
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 11, 2018 14:48:17 GMT
Northern's Barton on Humber - Cleethorpes route is isolated from the rest of the Northern network during the week - all other trains at Cleethorpes are TransPennine or East Midlands, which have to be used to connect with the nearest other Northern services at Scunthorpe or Lincoln.
However, on Saturdays Northern does run three (?) trains from Sheffield to Cleethorpes and back.
Once TfL Rail takes over the Paddington local services, I believe the Greenford-West Ealing shuttle will not connect with any other GWR service.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 10, 2018 23:11:55 GMT
I'd expect that the GOBLIN will simply just be tested by MENTOR (to check that the overhead is in the right place, the right tension, etc) and then some 710s Possibly a class 90 as well, as the line can be used for freight.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 10, 2018 18:43:51 GMT
wondered if it was wise to use something relatively untested itself on new infrastructure. The 710s will presumably be tested on a test track somewhere, and/or elsewhere on NR, before being let loose on the Goblin.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 9, 2018 14:46:33 GMT
At Kings cross, it says 'change here for the Victoria, Northern, Metropolitan....'. As long as it doesn't just list lines in a completely random order, I don't see why it should have to be alphabetical. Are they in order of ease of convenience of connection (the Picc is nearer the Vic as I recall, and a long way from the SSL - it would probably end ".......and, if you are changing to St Pancras for National Rail services, I'd stop for a picnic when you get half way to the domestic platforms........"
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 9, 2018 13:01:45 GMT
. The required performance is switchable in software via CSDE and it'll be the performance change aspect of that which won't operate if S7s pop up north of Finchley Road. S7+1 is, for this purpose, S8 The traction packages and motors are the same on both S8 and S7. So the capability can be (realtively) simply switched in or out depending on whether the eight car is present - i.e whether the train is configured as an S7 or an S7+1 ?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 9, 2018 12:05:42 GMT
The reason I said S7's dont have a weak field switch is that they are only capable of 40mph between Finchley Rd. and Harrow so I assumed that was the reason. Capable, or permitted? Presumably the S7+1s can/could do more than 40mph - they would be a bit of a liability for timekeeping otherwise - and it would surely be too much trouble to have had that capability installed, only to be removed when two of them were converted to S7.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 6, 2018 9:44:09 GMT
That horse has turned itself round since I saw it. Grass must be greener on the other side... The position of the signal suggests right-hand running on the Great Western as well............
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 4, 2018 12:08:14 GMT
I fail to see how selling rolling stock then leasing it back is economically beneficial to anyone other than whoever will be doing the leasing! It's like re-mortgaging your house to help with a cash-flow problem. But the difference is that the if the loan is secured against bespoke rolling stock the lender cannot realistically foreclose on you if you can't keep up the repayments, as the assets can't be re-possessed and sold on unless there's a market for them. So really it's an unsecured loan. (Or secured by whoever would bail the operator out if they couldn't keep up the payments - probably the taxpayer)
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 3, 2018 15:25:52 GMT
There are actually eight of these (class 317/7) on the Overground, along with six class 317/8s which had a less extensive makeover. (Greater Anglia kept another six 317/8s, as well as all the 317/1, /5 and /6s) Don't know if any have had the Stansted seating replaced: I rather doubt it given the units are shortly due for replacement anyway.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 3, 2018 7:56:32 GMT
Kensal Rise.....the Overground one. I can never remember which is Green and which Rise. They're both on the Overground, but Green is on the Bakerloo as well. I remember it that "Rise" is the next station after the "High Level" platforms at Willesden.
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