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Post by bruce on Aug 3, 2019 21:20:21 GMT
4-REP = Restaurant Electro-Pneumatic braked.
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Post by bruce on Aug 2, 2019 11:55:25 GMT
A wild guess - Northumberland Park Depot?
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Post by bruce on Jul 11, 2019 12:30:31 GMT
South Wimbledon Station
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Post by bruce on Jun 17, 2019 13:39:43 GMT
MOSI?
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Post by bruce on May 27, 2019 20:11:19 GMT
Somewhere around the Willesden Junction area
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Post by bruce on Apr 25, 2019 7:22:07 GMT
Location D Looking south from Abbey Road bridge towards South Hampstead Station
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Post by bruce on Apr 8, 2019 14:46:10 GMT
Belsize Park tunnels north of Kentish Town.
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Post by bruce on Apr 1, 2019 17:16:33 GMT
I = Liverpool Street steps up from Inner Rail platform
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Post by bruce on Mar 24, 2019 10:36:19 GMT
Turnpike Lane station Escalators
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Post by bruce on Mar 23, 2019 12:04:44 GMT
Background is Old Harry's Rocks Dorset so +1
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Post by bruce on Mar 1, 2019 18:06:58 GMT
D is Swiss Cottage
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Post by bruce on Feb 21, 2019 8:56:22 GMT
Elephant & Castle Bakerloo Line Station
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Post by bruce on Feb 18, 2019 10:48:06 GMT
Signal box is at Ropley on the Mid Hants Railway
+1 Hounslow West Station
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Post by bruce on Feb 11, 2019 18:30:13 GMT
There is nothing on the Colne Valley Railway website about the simulator. sweep has not logged into District Dave since early September last year.
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Post by bruce on Feb 11, 2019 10:26:10 GMT
The Electric Railway Museum closed in October 2017 and the exhibits were moved to new homes.
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Post by bruce on Feb 4, 2019 11:56:22 GMT
Insert is Antwerp Central Station
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Post by bruce on Jan 24, 2019 14:52:02 GMT
Morden Depot shunters cabin
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Post by bruce on Dec 9, 2018 18:32:11 GMT
If my ageing grey cells serve me correctly I seem to remember that there is a disused tube gauge hydraulic buffer at the end of the disused siding at Euston on the Northern Line City Branch. Also I think there is one hiding in the Angel disused siding.
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Post by bruce on Dec 9, 2018 18:27:06 GMT
1956/59/62 stock is also missing but I would assume that the wheel diameter would be the same as 35/38/49 stock.
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Post by bruce on Dec 2, 2018 13:43:26 GMT
Marylebone Station
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Post by bruce on Nov 26, 2018 13:05:34 GMT
Insert is HMS Bulwark. Visited London to host Royal Navy photographic awards June 2016
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Post by bruce on Nov 21, 2018 9:41:34 GMT
Tottenham Hale
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Post by bruce on Oct 29, 2018 10:57:04 GMT
+1 Acton Central looking east
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Post by bruce on Oct 26, 2018 9:01:16 GMT
IBJ = Insulated Block Joint
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Post by bruce on Oct 17, 2018 10:06:06 GMT
Blue Plaque is at Carpenders Park Station unveiled in 2014
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Post by bruce on Sept 27, 2018 12:06:56 GMT
Insert B left hand Emirates Air Line Cable Car viewed from the north side of the Thames
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Post by bruce on Sept 24, 2018 11:18:25 GMT
Insert B Memorial to Admiral Duncan, Admiral Howe, Admiral St Vincent and Admiral Nelson Storrs Temple It is located in Storrs Hall Hotel grounds, Lake Windermere, South Lakeland, Cumbria
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Post by bruce on Aug 7, 2018 16:38:03 GMT
I'm going to assume you mean by the driver under the authority of the signaller? Sorry, I should have been clearer - yes, in a failure scenario the signaller must set up each individual train to work in a restricted mode.....and then speak to the driver in order to authorise them to change modes and move their train [at 10mph]. Trains may only be authorised from one particular point to another particular point and cannot be authorised from one station all the way to another in one go (unless of course its a very short distance like Cannon Street to Monument)......so under failure conditions it'll take an absolute age to pass through a given area. We've been told "its great when it works, but expect to do at least four hours overtime when it goes down" And they call this progress!
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Post by bruce on Aug 4, 2018 20:02:20 GMT
Hmm that video inspires a light bulb moment. As stock on the Bakerloo gets older I guess the risk of wheel flats will rise for any rolling stock which lacks any form of wheel slip detection. That video suggests that you could quickly and easily implement a very cheap wheel flat detection system - assuming there are still signalling staff employed somewhere. Basically as trains shuttle back and forth along the same route it would only take providing the signallers cabin with a simple video camera feed with sound from a nearby platform which all trains are expected to transit. I suspect it would not take very long for the signalling staff to notice any train producing such a loud thump thump sound, and likewise will pretty much ignore the sound of any which don't. Sort of like most car drivers quickly get tuned to what sounds are normal. As and when a train sounds weird, presumably the signallers are ideally placed to identify the affected unit and get the maintenance staff to intervene to swap it out with another train whilst the problem is resolved. For very little investment the Bakerloo could potentially achieve very rapid pay-back through reduced track damage. If such a system was installed in a line control room, I can say that within 12 hours it would be turned off by one means or another. Signalling staff as you call them, do not need something that can interfere with their concentration in times of failures or incidents.
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Post by bruce on Apr 8, 2018 10:11:42 GMT
1/10 of an ampere (amp) of electricity going through the body for just 2 seconds is enough to cause death. The amount of internal current a person can withstand and still be able to control the muscles of the arm and hand can be less than 10 milliamperes (milliamps or mA).
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