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Title: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: Conner on March 16, 2008, 14:24:22 How long does it take for two west units to couple and how long to uncouple?
Title: Re: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: smithy on March 16, 2008, 15:04:14 all depends different every time,some units couple/uncouple first time others have problems like no brake release or difficult to split due to slightly different vehicle heights.
Title: Re: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: Jim on March 17, 2008, 07:41:41 all depends different every time,some units couple/uncouple first time others have problems like no brake release or difficult to split due to slightly different vehicle heights. TPE 158's are a pain for that. When they came here we had real problems with there coupling heights. Title: Re: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: eightf48544 on March 17, 2008, 12:20:55 In theory it ought to be almost instantaneous.
However as Jim says there can be problems, another he didn't mention is curved track. South Easten had a lot of trouble with the Electrostars at Slade Green depot on curved sidings. Didn't they have one come apart in service? Title: Re: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: tramway on March 17, 2008, 15:03:56 Used to be a bit of a fight at BTM on platforms 5 and 7 but that seems to have stopped. I think there might have been a regularly fitter with a crowbar at one time, to seperate 158's.
Title: Re: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: swlines on March 17, 2008, 22:42:24 I believe the time specified for coupling in the timetable specification documents are 4 minutes for all DMUs.
Title: Re: How Long Does it Take to Couple/Uncouple? Post by: Jim on March 17, 2008, 22:46:19 143's are a backside. Couple them up before they did the 14.55 Westbury-Filton, the amount of times we got an emergancy brake app. on the Rhubarb was unbelivable!
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