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Post by rincew1nd on Feb 7, 2024 23:57:17 GMT
Tap tap, this thing on?
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Post by rincew1nd on Feb 6, 2024 1:13:00 GMT
A Merseytravel All Zone SaveAway is valid on all trains and busses on Merseyside including the Borderlands line up to the country boundary. It's also valid on selected trains is Cheshire (Zone G) and Lancashire (Zone F): Buying a Heswall to Chester single means you can so a nice loop.
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Post by rincew1nd on Feb 6, 2024 1:09:36 GMT
Bits of bridge collapse onto active railway? Surely not! Oh.
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Post by rincew1nd on Feb 3, 2024 19:47:03 GMT
There, aren't you glad you asked now? YES
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 31, 2024 0:06:25 GMT
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 29, 2024 22:36:21 GMT
It's an anniversary, and it is linked to the ticket hall/entrance, but we are looking for something more solid than that.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 26, 2024 0:19:52 GMT
It's four-part Friday! Question: Identify these four locations, which is the odd one out and why (click/tap for a larger version) The locations are identified according to the diagram below:
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 26, 2024 0:17:33 GMT
First in by PM (and so not spoiling it for the other players) was bigvern. North Wembley station entrance on East Lane. Main photo: North Wembley - entrance in March 2023 [Chris M] (click/tap for a larger version) South Kenton for the main and Teddington Weir for the inset? As others have suggested, this whole guess is half right; given that we now know that half was wrong, it means you get the points for the other half! Inset: Teddington weir and lock [ howda62] (click/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 25, 2024 21:39:52 GMT
To me, gapped is when a train doesn't have any pickup shoes on the 3rd rail, surely the shoegear hasn't moved? Or is it a case that a car was on the juice but something about the motor meant it wouldn't move? Firstly, we use 3rd and 4th rails for traction current on LU! Mea culpa, due to reason my head is full of 3rd rail right now! Now whilst I'll grant you S stock doesn't run on the Central line, nor is it in anyway similar from a technical stand point, its possible to gap an S stock and still have pick up shoes in contact with the traction current rails - so the notion that being gapped means all pick up shoes off current needs to be gotten out of your head. OK, I take that point and understand it. I'm still not sure why different traction motors would be a factor in a train getting gapped though?
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 25, 2024 11:36:57 GMT
If that wasn't bad enough while doing CDP/ATOR yesterday I heard that there are problems with the new AC motors as the test train that has been running along the Hainault - Woodford loop got "gapped" in either the North Neck or the South Neck at Hainault depot Could you expand CDP/ATOR please? It's not on our list of common acronyms, ta!To me, gapped is when a train doesn't have any pickup shoes on the 3rd rail, surely the shoegear hasn't moved? Or is it a case that a car was on the juice but something about the motor meant it wouldn't move?
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 24, 2024 13:03:36 GMT
I thought I'd post this here... I was speaking to someone I know and apparently they're having trouble with the refurbished train whilst on test runs. Whoops.... Can anyone confirm this rumors or is it just rumors? Given that the point of test runs is to identify problems and then figure out a way of fixing them, it's probably true.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 24, 2024 0:25:23 GMT
Question: (click/tap for a larger version) There are bonus points [*] available today: Why were these locations chosen for today?*Sorry, I've forgotten how to make the bonus points glow
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 24, 2024 0:22:00 GMT
Will go for Osterley and Spring Grove for the station. Main photograph: Osterley & Spring Grove - platforms from Thornbury Road in July 2021 [Chris M] (click/tap for a larger version) The inset says Canterbury to me. Probably isn't, but it has a Canterbury look Castles down south are peculiar; I grew up in Leeds (West Riding) but Leeds Castle is somewhere down south. Having done some digging though (I typed the answer into a well known search engine) it appears that this castle is actually in a city of the same name and it's not Canterbury. Does this help? (click/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 23, 2024 11:18:24 GMT
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 23, 2024 0:21:29 GMT
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 23, 2024 0:20:23 GMT
West Ealing pre-Crossrail works? Answer: West Ealing - wall of platform 4 being painted in May 2018 (click/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 23, 2024 0:19:26 GMT
Two for today: Question: (click/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 23, 2024 0:18:23 GMT
Just north of Wembley Park? My card says: Stanmore Junction - view from northbound Metropolitan lines in February 2022 (click/tap image for a larger version) I can't swiftly find a Stanmore Jct, but as the picture is from the Met' Line, it makes sense to me that it's the junction for Stanmore, which is just north of Wembley Park. Have some points.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 15, 2024 22:56:21 GMT
90% of modern trains are 'inflexible fixed rakes' whether it be the S-Stock, the NTFL, the B23s, and the Aventras/Desiros/FLIRTS on the main line or whatever. I think the horse has well and truly bolted on that front. I think either your choice of 90% is low or your definition of "modern" very loose. The TransPennine Express Mk5 stock worked in fixed rakes, though I'm not sure about the Caledonian Sleeper carriages. Prior to that it's the 1990s Mk4 stock, which operate in fixed rakes. Bringing it back on topic for this forum, everything currently operates as fixed rakes, indeed on the Central Line cabs have been harvested for parts and are now condemned to being within a train.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 15, 2024 0:06:25 GMT
Just a single part to start your week: Question: (click/tap image for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 15, 2024 0:05:13 GMT
Northumberland Park depot? Answer: Northumberland Park Depot - No juice to the switch - short stretch of training track [ caravelle] (click image/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 13, 2024 16:10:50 GMT
Lets be honest, we all sit at the front of the DLR so we can pretend to be driving. Copenhagen metro has had pseudo control panels under the front windows for a while now: (Embedded tweet above shows this)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 13, 2024 15:59:25 GMT
Reminds me of an old radio comedy skit. Someone with a touch of beriberi was sent to Baden-Baden for the cure cure.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 13, 2024 15:55:25 GMT
These are all "between" locations though, how do Debden and Sydenham match the wood idea?
We will give credit for finding a correct link, even if it's not what we are looking for - but in this case I don't think it's quite there yet.
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Post by rincew1nd on Dec 28, 2023 20:50:23 GMT
In my mind, a "stalled" train is one off the juice, another word for the situation being "gapped".
How does a diesel powered Chiltern train get stalled?
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 23, 2023 22:59:16 GMT
Today marks ten years since we lost SE13 who was instrumental in implementing the Daily Quiz which I know many of you enjoy (see here ) It's not Twyford, see if this helps:
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 5, 2023 23:19:25 GMT
What a week it's been. Ah well, Friday: Question: (click/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 5, 2023 23:17:58 GMT
Sorry for the late start, this is entirely my fault. Luckily whistlekiller2000 is no longer an admin to taunt you. Dalston Kingsland station view from westbound platform waiting room Answer: Dalston Kingsland - platform shelter on eastbound [Chris M] (click/tap for a larger version)
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 1, 2023 8:32:15 GMT
I seem to remember from discussion on here, that the steepest gradient was part of a crossover somewhere that was a drop of about four inches due to cant over around four feet, giving 1 in 12.
Can't remember where it was though.
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Post by rincew1nd on Sept 13, 2023 22:22:50 GMT
So rather than bad, are we actually suggesting this is old signage?
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