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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 7, 2016 23:23:30 GMT
.....and indeed in A stock and R stock.
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Post by stapler on Jul 8, 2016 6:55:09 GMT
So for 31 years, the D78s were running OPO in the open along heavily trafficked lines in The Essex and Surrey suburbs, conveying millions of passengers a week, without serious incident, but they would be a danger to the public ambling along some Welsh byway?
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Post by class411 on Jul 8, 2016 7:28:55 GMT
Ah, that explains it. My memory of guards was mainly from my childhood, when they were in carriages, and had a small panel containing a fascinating purple light (marked IIRC 'Pilot'). [TIC]They had a bar so that when things got really crowded, they could make things even worse by reducing the size of one of the carriage they were in. [/TIC] Could you imagine if they didn't use the bar and had to squeeze there way back and forth across the train in the short interval between gaps. Oh the dwell times Could you imagine if they didn't use the bar and had to squeeze there way back and forth across the train in the short interval between gaps. Oh the dwell times Especially as the buttons were live and it was possible to open the train doors at any speed. Yes, guys, that was why the line was surrounded by "[TIC]" ( Tongue in cheek ) pseudo-markup. |
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Post by Jerome H on Jul 8, 2016 17:31:20 GMT
Could you imagine if they didn't use the bar and had to squeeze there way back and forth across the train in the short interval between gaps. Oh the dwell times Especially as the buttons were live and it was possible to open the train doors at any speed. Yes, guys, that was why the line was surrounded by "[TIC]" ( Tongue in cheek ) pseudo-markup. I like to follow along with more of the same. If your comments are TIC (which admittedly I hadn't a clue what that meant at the time) then there's about the same chance that a Southern train was cancelled today as my comments were also not meant as serious. Two can play at your game! Now where were we? Oh yes, how unsafe these treacherous trains were down in the valley.... |
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Post by thc on Jul 12, 2016 13:30:57 GMT
Vivarail's finest is bound for tests on the Marks Tey-Sudbury branch "in the next few weeks" according to Today's Railways August issue. Assuming this actually happens, I hope it performs well.
THC
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Post by stapler on Jul 12, 2016 17:31:36 GMT
THC, will this be in passenger service?
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Post by thc on Jul 12, 2016 21:37:51 GMT
My guess is as good as yours but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't. IIRC the Sudbury branch is single track throughout.
THC
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Post by stapler on Jul 12, 2016 21:54:52 GMT
Yes, and accessed from the GEML from the Colchester direction only
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Post by spsmiler on Jul 12, 2016 22:09:53 GMT
At Chappel and Wakes Colne station is the East Anglia Railway Museum (EARM). This is a twin track station (two bi-directional single lines) and it is possible to see / film trains from the footbridge as well as their platform.
Is it too soon to buy travel tickets?
Also at the museum is the Passimeter from the York Road ticket office at Ilford. I recall buying tickets there, "many years ago" when a youngster. Yikes! I am now beginning to feel old.
Simon
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Post by stapler on Jul 13, 2016 7:08:37 GMT
SPS there was a discussion thread on passimeters here a couple of years ago. As I recall, York Rd was not operated as a true Passimeter, with locked wickets, in the 50s or later (the same as all the LNER London suburban Passimeters). Still less so the LT "passimeters" (as so styled by the staff at the time) which were just island booking offices..
You can get 2 for 1 entry to the Chappel museum with current Greater Anglia Days Out offers, by the way
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Post by thc on Jul 22, 2016 14:47:13 GMT
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Post by crusty54 on Jul 23, 2016 5:47:42 GMT
Glad they've done the first deal.
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Post by stapler on Jul 23, 2016 6:48:53 GMT
Is this in addition to, or instead of, the Sudbury branch?
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Post by spsmiler on Jul 24, 2016 0:35:55 GMT
Is this in addition to, or instead of, the Sudbury branch? I hope its "in addition" to the Sudbury branch trial. LM sound innovative; they also host the first commercial use of Parry people movers on one of their routes. Simon |
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Post by crusty54 on Jul 24, 2016 4:12:27 GMT
Is this in addition to, or instead of, the Sudbury branch? I hope its "in addition" to the Sudbury branch trial. LM sound innovative; they also host the first commercial use of Parry people movers on one of their routes. Simon This is a deal with the West Midlands Combined Authority not LM. The Parry People Mover trial predates LM. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 24, 2016 6:09:39 GMT
LM .........host the first commercial use of Parry people movers on one of their routes. The Parry People Mover trial predates LM. The two PPMs (class139) on the Stourbridge branch were ordered by LM shortly after it took over the franchise in 2007. There had been a trial operation of a prototype (numbered 999 900) on Sundays a few years before. |
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Post by crusty54 on Jul 24, 2016 6:28:00 GMT
The Parry People Mover trial predates LM. The two PPMs (class139) on the Stourbridge branch were ordered by LM shortly after it took over the franchise in 2007. There had been a trial operation of a prototype (numbered 999 900) on Sundays a few years before. as I said quite clearly the trial predated LM and was in response to the point suggesting the company is innovative. |
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Post by thc on Jul 25, 2016 8:10:46 GMT
Is this in addition to, or instead of, the Sudbury branch? I hope its "in addition" to the Sudbury branch trial. Instead of. There is only one Class 230 unit. Its use on the Cov-Nun shuttles will be Vivarail's shop window. THC |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 25, 2016 12:35:47 GMT
Or possibly one after the other?
Or maybe Vivarail have plans to build more than one?
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Post by thc on Jul 25, 2016 14:13:36 GMT
They do indeed - see this press release - but further conversions will almost certainly be contingent on orders, hence my "shop window" comment. THC |
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Post by spsmiler on Nov 23, 2016 20:48:48 GMT
www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Comment/in-pursuit-of-the-perfect-train-designIn pursuit of the perfect train designAdrian Shooter, chair of Vivarail and former chair of Chiltern Railways, discusses the impracticality of creating a train that suits everyone’s needs, and the design the company has adopted for the Class 230 on the Coventry to Nuneaton line. <snip> This article repeats that the Class 230 train will start a one year trial later this year, 2016, and that the two DM's will have LU format seating whilst the T will showcase other seating designs. Simon ps: In an effort to keep up to date with news and information about these trains I created a Google alert which sends me an email whenever anything newsworthy is published about Vivarail. I have similar alerts of other topics too.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Nov 24, 2016 16:42:20 GMT
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Post by alpinejohn on Nov 24, 2016 16:49:28 GMT
The Allelys heavy haulage page on Facebook has a couple of nice photos of the units loaded up on low loader trailers, about to set off to their new mainline home in Tyseley.
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Post by domh245 on Nov 29, 2016 1:06:06 GMT
It Lives!
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Post by class411 on Nov 29, 2016 15:38:41 GMT
Somewhat surreal seeing D-Stock with a diesel filler cap. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 19:54:46 GMT
its bit noisy aint it even for a diesel I'm sure you can still make out the sound of the traction motor in the 2nd video or am i hearing something else?
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Post by rincew1nd on Nov 29, 2016 21:33:56 GMT
its bit noisy aint it even for a diesel I'm sure you can still make out the sound of the traction motor in the 2nd video or am i hearing something else? And at the end of the 1st vid. Doesn't seem any louder than a TurboStar. |
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Post by roythebus on Nov 29, 2016 21:57:53 GMT
Somewhat surreal seeing D-Stock with a diesel filler cap. It's for tipping the volts in.  |
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Post by spsmiler on Nov 29, 2016 23:24:46 GMT
yes, it is a bit noisy... but I'll still be going to see it when its carrying passengers.
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Post by metman on Nov 30, 2016 6:51:05 GMT
Yes I can could hear the traction motor - lovely!!
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