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Title: Tougher Windows Post by: martyjon on October 30, 2007, 17:30:54 see link ;-
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=First%20Group&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=d Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: Lee on October 30, 2007, 17:32:11 See also link below.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=885.msg3873#msg3873 Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: Tim on October 31, 2007, 09:10:52 They have been added to the refurbished HSTs and are being added to the refurbished 158 units at least
Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: simonw on October 31, 2007, 13:43:19 About time!
It's a shame it has taken so long since Ladbroke Grove for this simple change to be made. Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: Conner on October 31, 2007, 14:27:06 Are the emergency windows laminated on refurb HST's, if so you know where not to sit.
Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: Tim on October 31, 2007, 14:39:58 The new HST windows all look the same. If some are not laminiated (in order to serve as emergency exits) then they haven't been marked (unlike the Virgin Voyagers and SWT Diseros where a couple of windows per coach are marked "emergency exit". I suspect that all of the windows are laminiated glass and that current best practice is not to provide any "emergency exits" through the windows.
Any insider have the gen on this? Are laminated windows impossible to break in an emergency? If so are hammers still provided - it would seem sensible to remove them if attempting to break the windows was a waste of time. Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: devon_metro on October 31, 2007, 16:23:12 There are two emergency windows per Mk3
Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: vacman on October 31, 2007, 17:09:31 All this is coming out now but laminated windows were fitted to all refurbed coaches when they were refurbed?
Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: dog box on October 31, 2007, 18:43:57 its quite easy really the windows under the hammers are the ones to break
Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: vacman on October 31, 2007, 23:04:32 I think that even the laminated windows break when hit in the corner with a hammer??
Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: Mookiemoo on November 01, 2007, 19:49:17 Currently sitting in Coach G of a refurbed HST - window next to me has a big green "Emergency Window" sign over it with a hammer.
There seems to be two emergency windows - one on each side about half way down the carriage. Cant comment on coaches A-E Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: Tim on November 12, 2007, 17:01:42 Currently sitting in Coach G of a refurbed HST - window next to me has a big green "Emergency Window" sign over it with a hammer. There seems to be two emergency windows - one on each side about half way down the carriage. Cant comment on coaches A-E Shows how much attention I pay. Are laminiated windows IMPOSSIBLE to break? Title: Re: Tougher Windows Post by: devon_metro on November 12, 2007, 17:38:28 They are probably desinged not to a disintergrate under great pressure, They might crack and are probably pretty difficult to break.
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