Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
I'm surprised the second unit can be towed - whether coupled to the first oine or otherwise. From the photos and video, the misalignment between the third and fourth carriages (the two driving ends of the units) suggests damage to the couplings between them, and possibly other damage to the cab...
No services to Windsor at all over the long weekend. RRBs in use.
1711631153
There are other runs (training, mileage accumulation, don't know) - a 701 on a 5Q-- headcode has just arrived at Waterloo
Interesting, because an 09 has a max speed of 27.
I knoiw these were being hauled dead, but could an 08 run under power without coupling rods (it would effectively have an A-1-A wheel arranagement if both traction motors were working).
Whatever that means,
Instantly halving the fleet's MTIN figure...........
[EDIT 5U93 just left Wimbledon depot at 1153, so it looks like the problem has been fixed. (is this the unit that was to have done 2U91, or a replacement? - RTT is being coy again)]
I had a boundary Z6 return to Luton Airport Parkway (bought at West Hampstead), using my Over-60 Oyster to get to the boundary.
Returned to St Pancras on an EMR 360 and was stopped at the barriers and told it wasn't valid.
Relatively small driving wheels (and therefore low gearing), and built for high tractive effort at low speed, suggests she might have had pretty good acceleration, if only at very low speeds.
Not necessarily. As far as I am aware those expensive replacements have only had one failure in traffic so far. (admittedly the numerator of the "MTIN" ratio is also quite small)
It used to be a frequent sight on the "Joint" line to see freight trains with an 08 "dead in train" in the formation, on its way to or from Doncaster Works for overhaul. They always had their coupling rods removed - I assume this allowed them to be towed at higher speeds than was permitted under...
It was for a similar reason that hydraulic classes 113 and 127 were given their own coupling code, although their controls had be designed to be compatible with "blue square" doesel mechanical units (all other classes from 100 to 124). There were too many incidents of a driver forgetting that he...