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  1. ole man

    Point Heater power

    Depending upon the number of points being heated at a given location, a power supply of suitable type and capacity shall be obtained to meet the required electrical demand. For one or two number point ends, a 1 phase 230V 50Hz supply is appropriate, for three and above number point ends, a 3...
  2. ole man

    Skipton Signal

    The other day i watched a 66 run around its train and go down the Rylstone branch this happened every day around 14:00, the signal shown the letter B, what does this mean?
  3. ole man

    Guess the Station...

    Ormskirk
  4. ole man

    First win Intercity West Coast franchise

    There are Virgin staff at Crewe and Birmingham that are really concerned about there future,have first said anything about getting rid of staff?.
  5. ole man

    WCML disruption near MKC 8/8

    They are called isolations and can be very complicated, cutting back and extending them are called superseeding isolations are are complex to nominated persons. Try superseeding at paddington 3 times in a 7 hour possession
  6. ole man

    Railway General Knowledge.

    How anybody can think with your avatar is beyond me
  7. ole man

    Birmingham Viaduct

    Did it ever have rail installed on it?
  8. ole man

    Birmingham Viaduct

    From google maps there is a half-built viaduct between Bordesley and Birmingham Moor Street, was it ever used to stable engines?.And where was it meant to join to?
  9. ole man

    Rail Platform Object

    I could go there now and the ones that you did would be wrong, different companies have different ways of measuring them, though they should all be done the same way. Some use tape some use laser gauges and some believe it or not measure it from the wrong edge of the rail
  10. ole man

    Rail Platform Object

    This does pop up on this forum every month or so, they also have them on every OHLE structure showing the REFOS though they are never correct.
  11. ole man

    Beeching: The wonderful gift of hindsight.

    Beeching is being nominated as one of the greatest men that has worked for British Rail. He will always be a touchy subject some people say he saved British Rail back then and then others say he was anti-rail and wanted more Motorways. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, nobody back in the 60's...
  12. ole man

    WCML disruption near MKC 8/8

    All the equipment at MK is up to date UK1, and certainly wasn't done of the cheap, the most likely reason is going to be balance weight failure, the tempartures in this country give the Balance weight's a good working out. A major rip down causes a lot of problems that is dependant on the speed...
  13. ole man

    Guess the Station...

    Holyhead?
  14. ole man

    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    They do look strange, are the reg arms hanging down?. Somebody must know what design this is and what type of Ohle. Im going to say that it is a low bridge and that contenary will be run through this area that is why they are like that, they also look white
  15. ole man

    Guess the Station...

    Looks like Yorkshire stone.....Skipton?
  16. ole man

    Ban on alcohol on Scotrail between 9PM and 10AM

    A while ago whllst working in the tunnels at Birmingham New Street they had a complete smoking ban for all workers inside tunnel, which made us all laugh they said it was because BNS was classed as underground. Shame they didnt see welders cutting track, tampers churning out fumes and endless...
  17. ole man

    Is it me or are signal failures common?

    londonist.com/2006/06/signal_failures.php A little bit of information
  18. ole man

    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Ok then they must be Bridge Cantilevers, which company is supplying the OHLE on this job, ive never seen this type of design?
  19. ole man

    End of the station's word!

    Lichfield Trent Valley
  20. ole man

    1A40 Penzance - Padd tonight.

    There was 3 class 67's in Paddington sat night, with mix and match carriages, 67020 was one of them

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