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Post by bruce on Aug 13, 2012 20:38:09 GMT
May it have something to do with the American influence on the tube in the days of Yerkes. Isn't the New York metro left hand drive?
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Post by bruce on Jul 25, 2012 19:18:15 GMT
Not forgetting the short road tunnel in Dorset that collapsed last week onto a car with two people loosing their lives.
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Post by bruce on Jul 20, 2012 18:08:01 GMT
I think the insert is somwhere in Paris
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Post by bruce on Jul 20, 2012 17:57:29 GMT
Great set of pics, spent many a shift in there on standby and fault finding. Even managed to 'work the frame' when Cobourg Street was closed during asbestos removal. The frame was only worked in manual when the service was in disarray and the Program Machines were more of a hindrance than a help. Just a pity you missed the front of the Q relay racks especially those containing the track relays as these were, if my memory serves me correctly, unique to the Victoria Line.
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Post by bruce on Jun 27, 2012 17:44:17 GMT
Great effort, like the touch of the drink mug by the front window. One point though, for the first few stations, it is chucking it down with rain with the wipers going but when the train stops at a station the platform is bone dry and the sun is shining. Video goes back to the cab and its still chucking it down.
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Post by bruce on Jun 24, 2012 17:33:06 GMT
London Road +2
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Post by bruce on Jun 21, 2012 17:37:27 GMT
Don't forget to take into account wheel diameter due to tyre wear. A worn wheel will turn more revolutions travellling from A to B than a wheel with a new tyre on it.
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Post by bruce on Jun 3, 2012 20:56:10 GMT
Was it a '59 stock that went for a night time trip on the Bakerloo many years ago?
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Post by bruce on Apr 23, 2012 18:11:13 GMT
When I used to be an AET at Kings Cross back in the 1980's, if there was a serious problem at Seven Sisters that required the service to be suspended, trains were reversed North to South at Kings Cross. The main reasoning behind this, I believe, that is was better to send the passengers on to the northbound Piccadilly Line where connections with buses could be made at Finsbury Park, Manor House etc, etc. Not much point in sending passengers onto Highbury where the bus connections were not that good plus only a 20 minute service on the G.N. to Finsbury Park.
One of the problems with the layout of the track & signalling at Seven Sisters Northbound is with a train in the Bay Road and another reversing or depot train sitting at VL1 home signal, the northbound road was soon brought to a standstill. I could never understand why, considering that it was a new railway installed with ATO signalling from the beginning, 10's points were not set further back towards Finsbury Park. I asked the question to numerous people but no one could come up with an answer.
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Post by bruce on Apr 14, 2012 19:41:27 GMT
'67 stock trains used to occasionally under-run on the Victoria Line, it was normally due to a train fault not a failure of a braking spot. As already pointed out, the Train Operator intervened and brought the train to a stop at the stopping mark.
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Post by bruce on Apr 10, 2012 19:41:42 GMT
You can included the program machine replacement computers and any non safety control equipment in that list. For example scanning systems.
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Post by bruce on Apr 7, 2012 19:33:25 GMT
When I was a AET at Kings Cross, I was on night duty and I got a call from the Report Centre that the Station Supervisor at Holloway Road could hear a cat meowing behind a trackside ventilation grill and could I go and have a look and see if I could do anything. At that time I used to keep cats at home and the person in the Report Centre knew this hence the reason why I got the call. I met up with the Station Supervisor at Holloway road and was shown from where the meowing could be heard from. I took out protection and once the traction current had been discharged investigated further. I found a way through the ventilation grill and sure enough I found a rather bedraggled looking ginger cat in amongst the remains of the experimental circular escalator. By this time one of my supervisors had arrived on the scene and we decided to take the cat to the RSPCA centre near Finsbury Park. I did hear that a few weeks later that the cat had been reunited with its owner. I never did get the chance to return to Holloway Road to take some pictures of the experimental escalator.
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Post by bruce on Apr 5, 2012 21:43:20 GMT
I was one of the Signal Operations Managers on the Bakerloo Line and had quite a few dealings with these particular keyswitches in my time, mainly broken keys and once where the key was able to be withdrawn from the keyswitch lock before it had been operated! The key should only be able to be withdrawn from the lock once the keyswitch has been operated.
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Post by bruce on Apr 5, 2012 19:04:01 GMT
AFAICR at E&C the position of the keys can be as follows, with a train in a siding the key for that siding keyswitch is in the locked platform keyswitch. With NO train in the siding the key is in the siding keyswitch. There are 2 designated platform keyswitches for use by Train Op's, one for each siding.
There are other protection keyswitches at E&C which allow staff to designated areas only.
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Post by bruce on Apr 2, 2012 19:30:58 GMT
I believe that there is one at the end of 24 road at Queens Park, may also be one at the end of 25 & 26 roads but cannot remember. I think that there is something similar at the end of the disused siding at Euston Northern City Branch but its been over 30 years since I went down to the end of the siding.
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Post by bruce on Mar 30, 2012 19:23:31 GMT
Waterloo
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Post by bruce on Mar 28, 2012 19:40:17 GMT
Politicians are like nappies - full of s**t and need changing often. Boris is no exception.
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Post by bruce on Mar 9, 2012 19:37:56 GMT
Bit off topic but I believe that Skoda made the central hub for the London Eye.
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Post by bruce on Mar 4, 2012 19:44:02 GMT
And of course we do know how Joe Public behaves on a suburban train that has been held up for some considerable time and that's on trains that are manned and driven!
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Post by bruce on Mar 1, 2012 22:28:01 GMT
1967 stock had to be driven in coded manual to and from the depot, maximum speed 22mph. I assume that the 09 stock has to be driven in PM.
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Post by bruce on Feb 29, 2012 20:05:08 GMT
I can see a market for 1/76 (00 Gauge) models - if they can be produced at a reasonable price.
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Post by bruce on Feb 29, 2012 19:55:21 GMT
Has there ever been a Sunday service on this line?
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Post by bruce on Jan 31, 2012 20:03:55 GMT
Website appears to be out of date.
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Post by bruce on Jan 21, 2012 20:38:07 GMT
The 'walkways' that you see in the Victoria Line tunnels are in fact a sound barrier. They were never designed to be a walkway as they are too high up the side of the tunnel. Also there are gaps in them at crosspassages etc.
Bruce.
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