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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2008 11:52:38 GMT
Wikipedia mentions sleet tenders Nos ST1/ST2. Having never seen any mention of them before in any publication. Does anyone out there know what they looked like and how often they were used. I guess they were not a success! Thanks.  |
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Post by tubeprune on Sept 16, 2008 12:34:32 GMT
Wikipedia mentions sleet tenders Nos ST1/ST2. Having never seen any mention of them before in any publication. Does anyone out there know what they looked like and how often they were used. I guess they were not a success! Thanks. They looked like this: www.ltmcollection.org/photos/photo/photo.html?_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSR_=B2uCUc20_2c&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=sleet&_IXFIRST_=2&IXenlarge=i0000bm4I was told by a driver colleague when I worked on the Picc that they were tried on that line but they had one major defect. They dropped the track circuit ahead of the train so it got tripped at any signal which was close to the block joint - which was most of them. Why on earth they didn't think of that before spending all that money developing the thing, I'll never know but it suggests that things weren't that different in those days. The late Graeme Bruce relates a similar story and some technical details in his book, "Workhorses of the London Underground" published in 1987 by Capital Transport. |
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Post by metman on Sept 16, 2008 12:37:52 GMT
I didn't know Graeme had died-when did this happen?
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Post by Dstock7080 on Sept 16, 2008 13:01:27 GMT
J. Graeme Bruce OBE sadly passed away on 1 July 2001, aged 87.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2008 13:58:30 GMT
Thanks for the info.
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Post by towerman on Sept 16, 2008 20:05:07 GMT
A true gentleman of the old school.
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Post by metman on Sept 16, 2008 22:58:48 GMT
I enjoy reading his books.
Rest in peace
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