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Post by brigham on May 16, 2024 18:15:12 GMT
It was. The Met wes in favour of adopting the untried Ganz system, but Yerkes intended to use the DC Sprague system, which he was already familiar with, back in the United States.
Board of Trade arbitration decided upon the DC system, as favoured by Yerkes, and NOT the Ganz high-woltage AC system, which Yerkes OPPOSED.
And so I ask again: Does anyone know why the London Transport Museum is pretending that,"after a lengthy, controversial and public dispute with the Metropolitan Board, Yerkes won his battle to electrify the District using a high voltage alternating current".
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Post by brigham on May 16, 2024 7:39:24 GMT
Heading off at a tangent slightly, wouldn't it be sensible if the new Picc signalling was the same as the District line? Or perhaps reasign the Rayners Lane - Uxbridge branch to the District line, although there proabably wouldn't be enough trains for that? It's the old 'break-of-gauge' continuing to plague us.
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Post by brigham on May 16, 2024 7:33:34 GMT
Does anyone know why the London Transport Museum is pretending that the District was electrified "using a high voltage alternating current"?
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Post by brigham on May 8, 2024 7:27:29 GMT
I note that the station ticks remained the correct colour! That could be an unobtrusive way to allow a line colour to be used twice.
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Post by brigham on May 7, 2024 7:46:32 GMT
That looks to be a simple drum controller of the tramway type. Any picture of the driver's stance on an ordinary electric tramcar will show you what you need to know. It's easier to see than to describe, but basically there's a slot to let the handle lift off, but only in the 'off' position.
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Post by brigham on May 4, 2024 8:02:38 GMT
The footbridge looks like YORK, although that soumds unlikely.
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Post by brigham on May 4, 2024 7:29:10 GMT
Once again, the increasing inflexibility of rail transport comes to the fore.
It was a great thing in its day.
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Post by brigham on May 1, 2024 7:44:43 GMT
One would hope that best use would be made of the closure. If not, shuttles could be run as mentioned above, but with non-electric stock.
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Post by brigham on Apr 24, 2024 8:23:02 GMT
I can't imagine building a short stretch of A1009(M) being financially viable, but in London, who knows?
That bridge shows much evidence of shoring-up already. I'm guessing that the chosen option will be further strengthening, possibly of the 'better side' only in the initial term.
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Post by brigham on Apr 19, 2024 7:35:12 GMT
So much for "there will be no change to train lengths as part of this timetable change."
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Post by brigham on Apr 19, 2024 7:25:19 GMT
While we're on, what happened to the gap at Hainault? As a kid, I always wanted to go there, to see what it looked like in real life.
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Post by brigham on Apr 17, 2024 7:43:01 GMT
Seems someone has done an oopsie on the online map and made the section between Wanstead and Roding Valley blue instead of red ! Is it the same blue as the Piccadilly, or a subtly different blue? Perhaps the Hainault Loop is shortly to become a 'different mode'.
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Post by brigham on Apr 16, 2024 8:00:06 GMT
I've always loved the iconic sound of DC electric traction, right from childhood days of peering into the winding house of the Tees Transporter Bridge. It's all about the seemingly relentless torque through straight-cut gears. The sound made by today's AC 'chopper' control equipment is just a hideous parody of it.
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Post by brigham on Apr 16, 2024 7:39:35 GMT
C. Background is Southend.
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Post by brigham on Apr 15, 2024 9:26:39 GMT
I blame that "levelling-up" bloke.
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Post by brigham on Apr 15, 2024 9:23:19 GMT
Was it the 10th or the 20th?
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Post by brigham on Apr 13, 2024 7:27:17 GMT
Stonegate, York.
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Post by brigham on Apr 12, 2024 16:27:56 GMT
Only 43 years?
Are they really in need of replacement?
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Post by brigham on Apr 9, 2024 7:52:06 GMT
At which point in these events did the Mayor of London intervene? Is the Mayor's involvement in the proceedings a benefit or a liability?
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Post by brigham on Apr 3, 2024 7:37:58 GMT
Normal post-war railway operating procedure in Great Britain, sadly.
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Post by brigham on Mar 26, 2024 8:36:43 GMT
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Post by brigham on Mar 20, 2024 8:27:39 GMT
"It was concluded that engineers trains.../ /... had sometimes incorrectly used their CBTC equipment for movement".
I hope that the cause of the odd behaviour of these trains has been investigated.
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Post by brigham on Mar 19, 2024 8:32:24 GMT
Perhaps buses are to be included into the definition, the way sub-surface railways et al. have been.
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Post by brigham on Mar 16, 2024 8:31:25 GMT
It's rather less than apparrent to me. Can someone explain?
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Post by brigham on Mar 13, 2024 8:25:08 GMT
I suppose the 'Go app' (whatever that is) just says 'Paddington', leaving the traveller to work out whether it's Praed Street or the other lot.
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Post by brigham on Mar 12, 2024 8:58:39 GMT
Looks like diversity can be divisive...
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Post by brigham on Mar 12, 2024 8:45:46 GMT
Is Becontree the only one exclusively on the 'normal' Underground?
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Post by brigham on Mar 6, 2024 17:06:39 GMT
Any guesses on the outcome?
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Post by brigham on Mar 2, 2024 8:28:38 GMT
Connection is St. David's Day, no doubt.
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Post by brigham on Mar 1, 2024 17:42:42 GMT
Long welded flat-bottom rail, perhaps?
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