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Post by q8 on Aug 25, 2005 3:06:06 GMT
 Now I have heard and seen Districts trying to explore the line to Acton from Gunnersbury but I never ever heard of an NL train going off in the direction of Turnham Green. Has it been done?
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Post by redsam on Aug 25, 2005 12:14:24 GMT
I have heard that it has happened once....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2005 0:25:28 GMT
Wouldn't there be problems because the LU running rails are not bonded for return traction current? What would it do to the LU signalling circuits?
As Sir Humprey Appleby once said: "I foresee all sorts of unforeseen complications".
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Post by q8 on Aug 26, 2005 5:26:23 GMT
Wouldn't there be problems because the LU running rails are not bonded for return traction current? What would it do to the LU signalling circuits?
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They can go as far as the long rail gap at Acton Lane Bridge as the rails are bonded that far. That is long enought to get 12 cars in to reverse him back.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2005 11:16:56 GMT
So they DID foresee that unforeseen complication!
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Post by Dstock7080 on Aug 26, 2005 18:35:50 GMT
Hopefully this link will show a picture of 313021 on Weds 25 September 1991. At about 16.52 it accepted the wrong stick at Gunnersbury UP and proceeded towards Turnham Green. It was only after it passed over the BR/LT section gap that it stopped. It was eventually moved by cl.31 (31.144) dispatched from Willesden at 19.05. (LT not having any Tightlock coupling adaptors!) www.wlpta.co.uk/gallery/albums/UndergrounD-pictures/313021_Turnham_Grn.jpg©John S. Laker |
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Post by Chris M on Aug 26, 2005 18:49:13 GMT
I like the thoughtful "Not in service" blind!
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Post by q8 on Aug 27, 2005 8:18:10 GMT
How the hell did he manage to go that far? He must have been a sleep or a brand newbie. I assume that having no negative return path after the rail gap was what stopped him?
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Now I have heard and seen Districts trying to explore the line to Acton from Gunnersbury but I never ever heard of an NL train going off in the direction of Turnham Green. Has it been done?
