Recent content by Tynwald

These will be the last resistance control, DC drive, units left. Apart from LUL.

I travelled on APT, That didnt make me sick.

508 and 455 had power jumpers. 507 didnt, because they worked underground single bore tunnels. When 508 tranferred to Merseyrail, the were removed. later 507 and 508 had them installed. As far as aware all southern emu had them fitted. EPB, CEP, CIG, REP, and so on.

I would expect a TM change. would it be worth at this late stage. This type of motor had serious commutation problem, as did all G310 motors. It affected all the stock that had them fitted, which was a lot. Hong Kong mass transit was a major customer.

They do

Spirex auto auto drain valves. Or fart valves as we used them.

Should be able to go to simms under their own power ?

a lot depends on the condion of said unit. Traction motors and wheelsets, are a massive problem.

The hvac is soprano I believe

yaw dampers.

they were horrible

it would make sense for all the 458/5 to go to to Bournemouth as well. common fleet. use on high density services.

Does anyone remember the introduction of the 507. They where an utter dissaster. continous failings. which went on for a long tme. Bring back the 502 was the quote. Sands of time.

That looks superb

depends on the general condition. MA sets arent that difficult to change. But do they replacement machines. And what is the state of the wheelsets, bogies and traction motors.