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Post by stapler on Jul 21, 2022 15:48:26 GMT
This was out this morning, stabled at about 10 in platform 2 Leytonstone, after which it appears to have followed an Epping-WRuislip service train with Special on the describers. Is this a usual movement, or was it out checking the track in the open sections specially following the heat of recent days? Ambient temperature was about 70F at the time.
The TRT appears to be 2 Craven 1960TS motor cars sandwiching two ?1973TS trailers, which presumably contain the recording apparatus. Quite an antique in 2022 - but someone will doubtless confirm...
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Post by towerman on Jul 21, 2022 17:01:09 GMT
The motor cars are the ones that were never converted to ATO(3910/11)believe the TRC is a 73 TS trailer,think it comes from the unit that caught fire at Bounds Green.
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Post by 100andthirty on Jul 21, 2022 18:21:00 GMT
It was converted to act as the track recording train in about 1987. The computer wizardry has been updated several times since then.
There was a grand plan to run the 1973 car on Southern Region tracks in order to calibrate it against British Rail's TRC. In order to enable this, the couplings at both ends of this car and the trailing ends of the 1960TS motor cars were converted to standard Southern buckeye couplers and centre buffer at main line height, with two pipe air connections and 27 way jumpers. This did happen once or twice but not for a long time, and of course all the trains it could have coupled to have now been withdrawn. The disadvantage of all this is that the R and S doors are rather short. One had to bend double to move from car to car.
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Post by jimbo on Jul 21, 2022 20:34:43 GMT
"The Remote Track Monitoring project has drafted a contract award recommendation for the design and build of new track geometry recording equipment. The project will mount this equipment on two sets of host wagons, which will be hauled by battery locomotives across the network, replacing the single, life-expired track recording vehicle currently in operation. A new project has also been initiated to reduce the likelihood of unplanned track recording vehicle outages before its replacement." [TfL Investment Programme report - quarter to 31 March 2022] link "two sets of host wagons" suggests to me two trains on the network in future. |
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Post by brigham on Jul 22, 2022 7:37:06 GMT
Aren't Cravens 1960 driving motors an oddity, with the bulk order being switched to more '59ts?
Might be worth considering a future use for them.
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Post by stapler on Jul 22, 2022 9:49:32 GMT
They are. And those on the TRT look different, I think, from the set that used to stable in the "Ongar siding" (?No. 21 road?) at Loughton up to 1994. Though I can't think quite how!
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jul 22, 2022 9:52:53 GMT
They are. And those on the TRT look different, I think, from the set that used to stable in the "Ongar siding" (?No. 21 road?) at Loughton up to 1994. Though I can't think quite how! low level headlights and recently fitted with air-hoses on the front, slightly spoiling their look! |
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Post by fish7373 on Oct 11, 2022 0:11:10 GMT
The motor cars are the ones that were never converted to ATO(3910/11)believe the TRC is a 73 TS trailer,think it comes from the unit that caught fire at Bounds Green. Hi not from bounds green fire still in passenger service TRC 666 converted from 1973 stock trailer car 514 |
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Post by towerman on Oct 11, 2022 10:31:01 GMT
Thanks for that,I stand corrected.
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