Interesting Movement Last Night

I feel sorry for the driver of the train, it would drive me mad!

How many Duracells do you need to move one? ;D ;D ;D

You get worse MA ;D

I'm only jealous

Nice pic BTW ;D ;D

L15 was 1969 build for working Picc Heathrow extension.

Yep, iam reliably informed that if you are driving one for a little while, you get a nice ring indent in your hand when you let go!

This button is the deadman. Another fact you might like to know is that there are 32 (IIRC) notches on the deadman!

I've only ever been in one battery loco, it had a weird type of deadman; just a button in the handgrip on the controller. Are they all like that?
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Cor blimey cock, you should have seen some of the handles on the standard (pre-1938) stock. Some were large square things 6 inches by four and about an inch and a half thick. Not only did you have to hold that monstrosity down but it also had a knob in the button that also had to be kept depressed. If you did a Ruislip-Epping you had a bloody hole on the palm of your hand.

There was a Engineering work at Leytonstone station this week

Thank you for all the replies.

I once head a story that a T/op of a 73TS on the Piccadilly Line failed to get a Pilot light at a station (Don't know which station) because there was something stuck in between one of the doors, The T/op left the Control Key/RKL220 all in place and left the CTBC depressed in SERVICE 1 with a Bag of shopping he/she had, the T/op managed to get whatever it was stuck in the doors out so that a Pilot Light could be given for the Train to motor, unfortunately as the T/op was walking back to the Cab, something in the bag of shopping depressing the CTBC 'slipped' causing the CTBC to move from SERIES 1 to a motoring position with nobody present in the cab.

Does anybody remember this incident and what the outcome was?

ROFL! That wasn't a funny incident, the idea of a driver falling out and the train slowly departing I find (for some reason) halirous.

Not only prosecuted, but found guilty of endangering passenger safety, and got sentenced to six months inside.

As a direct result of his actions, 'traction restroking' was implemented on all stock, preventing the pilot light circuit from being completed if the CTBC is in a motoring position. Hence the reason why, if a driver loses the pilot light, they have to shut off and wind up again

Re: Kings X runnaway...

What stopped the train? Presumably it was tripped.

When was this incident?

There was a nasty collision at Manors in 1926 when a driver of an electric train fell out of the cab. He was reported to be leaning out looking into the saloon at a courting couple .
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A similar and much hushed up thing occured on the DR in the early sixties by a driver now retired and still living on the DR.

I was running with this same driver with 6 car CP once on a dead late and, as we used to, I walked through the train to the east end after Dagenham East counting the number of folk on board. You then worked the doors from the east end and counted the number getting off thereafter. This made for a quick close up at Upminster and down the yard.

However I walked through one night and when I got to the east end and went into the cab to chat to my mate there was no b*gger there!! The train was driving itself with the oil tail lamp hanging on the handle. I then got a tap on the shoulder and my driver was behind me.

When asked how this was possible I was told I had passed him in the dark in a middle cab. He had, of course, been "bogging"

District Railway.

Tripped approaching Holloway Road at 45mph no less. Not sure of the date, post 1987 for sure.