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Double third rail query
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Noted from a talk by Bombardier in 2016: Each train has two independently-powered ends and a trailer in the middle, so it will run with...
17 Apr 2024
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Double third rail query
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This question of bridging was raised earlier in the thread, but not answered. From TfL's datasheet for the class 378, the shoes are on...
17 Apr 2024
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WCML Power Supply & Auto Transformer Upgrade
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This from something put out by SP Energy Networks: There will also be access rights (I think this is the same underground as overhead):
16 Apr 2024
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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway
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Roughly speaking, it bears the same relationship to you local sewage treatment works as does your computer printer to a newspaper's web...
16 Apr 2024
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Calculating Railway Height
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They are neither! OS explains these record photographs thus: So these were basically intermediate points used in local surveying...
15 Apr 2024
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Calculating Railway Height
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I've actually never come across this, as it just wasn't a thing in the 60s when I was at school or university. Later I did have to...
14 Apr 2024
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What is the point of Old Oak Common?
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That document does not really cover discussions about the route and connectivity before the initial HS2 proposal in 2010. Serving...
12 Apr 2024
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Act of Parliament after a lines closure
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Looking at the details in the report and consultation document (links in the page referenced above), very few of the repealed acts saw a...
8 Apr 2024
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Act of Parliament after a lines closure
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The procedure for closing railways deals with running services, and does not go on to consider repeals. What has happened recently is...
8 Apr 2024
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Dining Car Attendant 1928 - 1939 St Pancras?
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Have you searched through the lists in Appendix 1 of the "Railway Workers" guide? For the grouping era, there are only four companies to...
7 Apr 2024
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Dining Car Attendant 1928 - 1939 St Pancras?
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According to the National Archives guide (link above), staff records of most of the main railway companies have been imaged and indexed...
6 Apr 2024
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Network Rail hopes staff will be 'amateur meteorologists'
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A poor choice of wording, obviously. Look at the next line of that report: "It wants to help staff to interpret weather forecasts to...
4 Apr 2024
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RENFE train at Plouaret, Brittany.
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Déshuntage is the standard term for a train failing to activate a track circuit. Usually it happens with the lighter single-car trains...
1 Apr 2024
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Derailment near Grange Over Sands
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Tim Farron (local MP) has got hold of some interesting information. From cumbriacrack: Some of that is typical MP making a noise stuff...
1 Apr 2024
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Derailment near Grange Over Sands
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I assume we are looking into a void where the side has been dug away, creating a sort of cave mouth. It looks just as in the...
31 Mar 2024
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