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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2005 9:18:33 GMT
In my previous thread about the missing sidings at Parsons Green, I made reference to an activity called 'hand-coupling' that the shunters at Parsons Green didn't want to do when the site was handed over to programme machine control.
Therefore, the Great Signal God Robert Dell invented the control panel that trainopd78 has been busily photting so that the local crews could hook into the programme machines locally and control movements as needed for shunting.
My question though is: What was hand-coupling?
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Post by DWS on Dec 10, 2005 13:43:54 GMT
In my previous thread about the missing sidings at Parsons Green, I made reference to an activity called 'hand-coupling' that the shunters at Parsons Green didn't want to do when the site was handed over to programme machine control. Therefore, the Great Signal God Robert Dell invented the control panel that trainopd78 has been busily photting so that the local crews could hook into the programme machines locally and control movements as needed for shunting. My question though is: What was hand-coupling? More like hand uncoupling, this was with the Q stock, which had Ward Couplings, this need two shunters with uncoupling poles. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2005 9:13:12 GMT
My question though is: What was hand-coupling? It's what Masons do when they meet. |
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Post by q8 on Dec 13, 2005 10:14:42 GMT
Ah DWS you bring back memories. Two men down on the track between cars with coupling poles. Heaving, shoving, pushing, pulling and cursing to get the clutches to either move at all or stay back in the open position. They got filthy dirty in the process too which is why coupling crews generally wore overalls and not uniform! However coupling crews had it easy on the District compared the their mates on the Central and Piccadilly lines in the days of the pre 1938 stock which also had ward couplers. The very restricted space made it much more difficult to yank the clutches about or to insert/remove the jumpers between cars.
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Post by towerman on Dec 13, 2005 19:07:00 GMT
Some of the old hand shunters at Hainault when I was a lad said it was the best thing that ever happened getting the 59/62stocks,with the standards it wasn't a case of swapping units,it was car out ,car in.They used to run about the yard with inter-car jumpers over their shoulder and coupling pole at the ready.
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