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Post by Phil on Apr 19, 2012 8:59:00 GMT
I can't see how clearing your browser cache would cause the problem with the main site not loading... although I suppose it depends on what you mean by "not loading"... Normally images etc. from sites load from the cache - they only need to access the site if those images have been removed in one way or another. Like by having to empty the cache. "Not loading" means getting the message 'waiting for.......' until the page times out ("connection was reset"/ priblem loading page). windows XP and it happens with FF, IE8, Opera AND chrome........my usual is FF. Fine for me on my antidiluvian PC (IE and Windows XP - yes really) and also on my Android phone. Even more bizarre here (except to an expert perhaps). If on my Android (Opera Mobile 11.5) I use the wifi to the home router I get all the same problems - BUT if I use the O2 data connection all works perfectly including the image buttons here AND the main site, almost instantaneously. And the final piece of the puzzle is that my son's laptop does exactly the same thing here at home but is fine elsewhere. And the IP provider (Entanet) have done a tracert from the site to here and nothing takes longer than 38ms. Any computer "holmes"'s like to make a case (preferably a solution) out of that lot?? Worth noting that the images here, and the main site itself, are hosted in the same place.
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Post by Phil on Apr 19, 2012 8:10:54 GMT
I am one with the issues - but it only started after I had to clear the browser caches. All was fine up till then, but now there are problems both with images (main banner and buttons at top) on here AND accessing the main site: won't load at all.
If you haven't emptied your cache recently you probably won't have the image issues..........
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Post by Phil on Apr 13, 2012 14:06:09 GMT
I expect it would been a technical jump too far for the 83TS to gone to Isle of Wight and at the time they had their new 38TS only for a short while. 83ts was out-of-gauge for the IOW tunnels and curves. Too long.
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Post by Phil on Apr 13, 2012 10:36:23 GMT
what do they get out of this, Publicity. That's why we (and all responsible press) don't allow any pics of their efforts.
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Post by Phil on Apr 10, 2012 11:34:20 GMT
It used to be like this in 1927: Train in the foreground is the Ealing Broadway to Southend express. Photo courtesy of "Steam to Silver" by J. Graeme Bruce
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Post by Phil on Apr 10, 2012 11:25:27 GMT
....which is, so i was told, why the 1996 stock have those shallow windows, they were designed to be the same depth as those on the 1983 stock. And of course the 1995 stock is built to the same design Correct . And how sad that a whole generation of standing tube users were condemned to virtually no view thanks to the short-sighted (and short-term) decision based on the illusion that the fall in passenger numbers was going to be permanent .
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Post by Phil on Apr 8, 2012 22:04:34 GMT
A lot of response is now controlled by an intermediate layer of software aboard the train, IIUIC? The benefit of this is that as experience and miles are gained, the software can be tweaked to respond better to the environment it reads. It could well be that once the olympics and 2012 are over there will be more time to devote to improving traction control software. Unfortunately the thread on the same topic in the Jubilee board seems to tell a different story. No tweaks there yet despite the currently dreadful ride in ATO and the time they've had to do something about it.
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Post by Phil on Apr 8, 2012 8:57:23 GMT
I have often wondered this if the main TBTC computers crash what happens to all the trains on the line will they automatically just stop? What a question! If you are a member of this forum surely you by now MUST understand that ALL railway systems are designed to be fail-safe, and have been for the last 130-or-so years (they weren't always before that). Have you never heard of backups, and backups-to-backups? Or is your laptop flying by the seatofthepants if anything goes wrong?
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Post by Phil on Apr 8, 2012 6:52:19 GMT
Maintenance. At that time it was considered more sensible to be able to have 'half-trains' so that if there was a fault in one half, you could couple it to any other half, so not losing whole trains from service.
That perception is different now, for better or worse..... but reliablility has improved considerably with the advent of electronics.
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Post by Phil on Apr 6, 2012 22:13:36 GMT
And of course one of the earliest diagrams (from "the Iron Road", pub 1925) also had the southern branches wrongly labelled - maybe that's where the error in the later drawings came from.....
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Post by Phil on Apr 4, 2012 16:49:53 GMT
Except that now even the Gov't advisors and Network Rail, let alone any others, admit that at some stage all the third rail across the whole (NR) network is going to have to be converted to 25kV overhead due to (lack of) power supply problems associated with the current (sorry!) and new-build trains.
See current issue of RAIL for details. Very costly but now accepted as inevitable.......
So D stock to Yorkshire? Looking less likely by the minute.
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Post by Phil on Apr 4, 2012 10:19:09 GMT
So, do we assume from that, that the W&C will get PEDs sometime before then??
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Post by Phil on Apr 1, 2012 7:44:55 GMT
Fortunately (as has been mentioned before) Boris has no powers to overrule the RSSB. When we remind ourselves as to what they insisted on for the DLR Bank extension, i.e. lights (easy) and a continuous walkway for emergency evacuation (virtually impossible in the current 12ft tunnels), and these were their MINIMUM standards, unless Boris decides that all new trains be 2ft (2/3 metre) narrower, with all the ridiculous modification to the structure, stations etc. RSSB will simply say NO and there's nowt anyone can do to appeal.
So NoPo possibly on open-air, just possible on SSR enclosed sections but completely impossible in the tube sections.
And going back to the previous "trains stopping before hitting.....": it didn't happen on the DLR when the passenger fell onto tracks from platform (link to report a LONG way up this thread) did it? - not much was said at the time (hushed up?) because of the status of DLR in some people's eyes (toy railway). A sensor might cause an emergency brake application but what then if there's a body under the middle of the train, no driver to report it and nobody on the platform??
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Post by Phil on Mar 31, 2012 20:28:13 GMT
I'm sorry - all this still ignores the reality of public opinion. On LU there is still (on average) one suicide or attempted suicide per week. Divide this across the combine (yes, I know - I'm a scientist ) and each line gets about one attempt per quarter. So we make one line driverless. Sometime (randomly, or not) in the next 13 weeks a person falls off the platform and the driverless train proceeds regardless. The train kills (yes, KILLS) that person. However there are no staff on the platform due to the other staff reductions. Train is not derailed so leaves as normal and the punters for the next train are treated to the sight of a minced up mangled body in the suicide pit, with no staff member to report it to........... And though it may take longer than 13 weeks (statistics ), it WILL (would) happen, and what will then be the cost of putting cabs back into the new trains? And how sad that the subStandard will be right for once. What a reason to vote for Ken at the election.
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Post by Phil on Mar 28, 2012 13:47:29 GMT
It is interesting as the Capitalstar 378 and Electrostar 376 Suburban Units have door pockets due to reliability issues?! Plug doors can be unreliable I've heard and with millions of door movements a year it would be unwise to use them on metro trains. The way some platforms are rammed in the peaks means they (outward openers) wouldn't stand a chance (of maintaining dwelltime)....the last outward-opening doors on the system were the Met compartment and T-stocks: mind you, you're probably building one of them too .
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Post by Phil on Mar 28, 2012 10:57:59 GMT
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Post by Phil on Mar 26, 2012 10:42:35 GMT
Well I think it would be more efficient. But ultimately for an electric train the most efficient way to drive is to get up to speed as quickly as possible and coast to the next station. Which, interestingly was the very method taught to the original drivers of the first-generation DMUs.......nothing changes then except the method of traction is different .
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Post by Phil on Mar 20, 2012 8:03:20 GMT
But on the Victoria Line, you rarely see daylight. True - being underground all day can certainly mess with your brain. For example most coalminers go for over six months each year never seeing daylight except on Sundays (and Saturday if there's no overtime). It does odd things with your body - northern icelanders have two lives - winter (24 hr darkness) which is almost comatose, and summer (24light) which is totally manic by comparison - they only really LIVE for six months per year. Must be the same on the Vic, and also for some shifts on the Bakerloo when you're in the pipe all day (except for a couple of minutes every Queens Park turnround). But equally, the same must apply to a lot of station staff .
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Post by Phil on Mar 19, 2012 22:50:02 GMT
I enjoyed tonight's episode and am surprised there are so few comments about it here. I was wondering if that was MetControl who was shown explaining why a short delay at Kings X causes huge disruption down the line? No - metcontrol had a much bigger slice a couple of weeks ago .
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Post by Phil on Mar 19, 2012 11:45:49 GMT
I love that - it's great fun. BUT - as with all these "clever ideas" why give the game away to the enemy? He says he's not actively involved any more, but even still......what do all his fellow conspirators make of it?? More open warfare.........
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Post by Phil on Mar 18, 2012 17:52:50 GMT
CHECK: deeplevel is correct. Log in to facebook and you'll see them immediately. If you don't belong to facebook (genuinely or with an alias ), then tough - that's facebook's overbearing rules .
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Post by Phil on Mar 18, 2012 17:48:51 GMT
Until one of the vic t/ops comes along to confirm (or not....), I suspect it is all down to habit. In their later years the 67ts often found it very difficult to stop itself on the mark, and the t/ops were constantly having to intervene to avoid overruns. When you've been doing that for 10 years or more, it can be quite hard to overrule your instincts and trust the train to do its own stuff. I suspect the younger t/ops are happier with their hands well away from the handle.
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Post by Phil on Mar 17, 2012 15:07:34 GMT
Initial problems (I'm sure soneone else will amplify....) 1. For that distance, if private hire (unlike in preservation) both driver and vehicle would have to comply with EEC regulations. So it's a tachograph-fitted vehicle and a driver who's tachograph trained. Complusory breaks, including one of at least 45 mins for that distance. 2. If you're taling about a bus (not a coach) all recent vehicles have to be delivered with a maximum speed of 50mph: even before that most responsible operators insisted on it anyway. On single carriageways the legal limit is 50mph for buses anyway. Obviously you specify bus not coach - - for many operators a coach would be considerably cheaper than a bus, but your post clearly has a reason behind it .
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Post by Phil on Mar 15, 2012 9:22:25 GMT
Now l've slowed the film down, the building l mistook for Performance Cars is actually "North Thames Gas" Also the bus at 4:11 is an RTW which was no longer in West London by '65. I'd say 62 or 63 but l now think several (3?) different locations. Where was the "Carrier" factory?? That will pin it down I'm not convinced it IS an RTW if you look at the width of the cars the way Youtube shows it. And I like the Saunders bodied RT at 5.05....... but I'm amazed that BOTH bikes have their "L" plates totally covering the headlight *. Even if it was legal at the time it seems a ridiculous place to put it if you want to go out at night. I wouldn't have even considered putting it there on my scooter (OTOH there was more space to put it). *Except Tom's bike in one shot in the middle of the clip - continuity fail!!
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Post by Phil on Mar 13, 2012 22:50:53 GMT
Is this a company closedown? Thet can't be left with much with all that lot gone, can they??
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Post by Phil on Mar 9, 2012 19:32:05 GMT
Which line has the most friendly drivers? One man's 'friendly' is another man's "annoying git" ;D
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Post by Phil on Mar 8, 2012 13:09:55 GMT
in apparent contravention of the time-table? Wrong word - failure to understand what a TT is. It is (and can never be more than) only ever a statement of intent barring adverse circumstances. These circumstances can include train failure, signal failure, passenger action, staff shortages, illness, track failure..............the list goes on. The word "contravention" implies legal fault and is totally the wrong way to look at it. Believe me, all staff want to run as many trains as they possibly can - it was true before, and is even more so now with the advent of performance targets. Cancellation of trains is only ever done as a last resort, due to the known consequences (overcrowded platforms etc.) of doing so. Repeated cancellation of the same trains indicates some sort of recurring problem yet to find a solution .
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Post by Phil on Mar 6, 2012 12:35:33 GMT
less of an excuse for sensationalist programs such as the Channel 4 program apparently was (I've not seen it). But they always are (C4). I was amazed on Sunday to hear a food "expert" (doctor etc.,) blithely inform the viewers that "of course, all jars of peanut butter have the remains of at least 50 insects in them". Responsible? How then does a vegan parent explain to a vegan child that all such jars of peanut butter have the 'suitable for vegans' logo in large size on the side? C4 is very good at presenting "facts" (many of them not totally true at that) without ever considering the consequences; viz the ridiculous stunt to hijack a nuclear waste train. Proved nothing apart from the producer being an absolute prat but scared an awful lot of viewers who didn't appreciate the absurd outcome that would arise (the hijackers being killed as soon as they tried to open it). Back round the circle (sorry!!) to the BeeB and they are proving precisely the opposite with this series - sensitive and honest. Congratulations to them - may the rest of the series be as good as so far.
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Post by Phil on Mar 6, 2012 9:55:01 GMT
BUT, I doan't get what cases are still ongoing. Surely with these sad incidents, if they are not suspicious, then what cases could lead to legal problems. Sorry if that's a daft question, and if its better to not say on here, then so be it, was just wondering. It's a coroner, and ONLY a coroner who can close a case, and in this instance he has not closed it yet........ As you say, very confusing to us, but legally it's quite simple; the coroner has adjourned the case for reasons which we mortals are deemed not to need to know .
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Post by Phil on Mar 5, 2012 23:27:44 GMT
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