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« Reply #135 on: November 29, 2013, 10:27:53 » |
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« Reply #136 on: November 29, 2013, 10:59:07 » |
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Won't prevent the power failures recently experienced either...
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« Reply #137 on: November 29, 2013, 18:40:03 » |
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Danny Scraggins, Network Rail operations manager, said: ^This system will close next May, when the signalling moves to Didcot. The new model will be computerised so will be superior.^ Yeah, because computers never go wrong ...  Won't prevent the power failures recently experienced either...
The problem with the old type electrical signalling from PSB▸ is the communications from it to the relay rooms is radial cables, the same with the power supplies they are radial feeds, the modern systems have two data lines which have divers routing (ie one data line goes east the other goes west) the power supply systems are dual end fed with an auto reconfig system (ie it will automatically switch out and the around a faulty cable) |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #138 on: February 28, 2014, 22:15:11 » |
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And still they bash... From Swindon Advertiser A HORSEBOX has become wedged under the Whitehouse Bridge in Corporation Street heading towards the TK Maxx roundabout. Police officers are in attendance attempting to stop traffic, which has backed up, so they can free the vehicle. A police spokesman said: ^The horsebox became fully stuck under the bridge at around 4.54pm and officers were sent to the scene to manage the traffic. There were no horses inside the vehicle.^ |
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« Reply #139 on: March 01, 2014, 23:13:48 » |
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You can't teach that!
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« Reply #140 on: April 01, 2014, 12:11:57 » |
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Not sure when the "thiriving" is supposed to start, but the garden still looks uncared for and currently sports two daffodils which I guess re-grew from last year's bulbs. Shame.
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« Reply #141 on: April 01, 2014, 12:23:33 » |
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Not sure when the "thiriving" is supposed to start, but the garden still looks uncared for and currently sports two daffodils which I guess re-grew from last year's bulbs. Shame.
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« Reply #142 on: April 20, 2014, 20:27:28 » |
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Progressing this one ... will report back ...
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« Reply #143 on: May 24, 2014, 07:08:42 » |
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Network Rail has announced a delay in the closure of Swindon Panel and the transfer of control to Didcot. It was originally going to be the August Bank Holiday weekend but will now be Christmas this year or Easter 2015.
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« Reply #144 on: May 24, 2014, 18:19:03 » |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #145 on: May 24, 2014, 20:04:07 » |
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At face value it does seem a long delay but I guess you need more than an ordinary weekend to do it and after August the next bank holidays are not until Christmas or Easter.
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« Reply #146 on: May 25, 2014, 15:34:41 » |
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bobm, where did you read about the delay in closing Swindon Panel? I can't find any references to it on Network Rail sites. Was it something that someone at NR» mentioned to you and isn't yet announced?
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« Reply #147 on: May 25, 2014, 21:05:06 » |
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It was an announcement given to members of the Swindon Panel Preservation Society last week.
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« Reply #148 on: May 26, 2014, 16:25:13 » |
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Swindon Advertiser now has the story:August closure of signal system is derailed
NETWORK Rail announced this week that the closure date for the Swindon Panel, the outgoing signalling system at Swindon train station, has been postponed.
It was originally due to be removed during the August bank holiday but has been postponed for either three months to Christmas 2014 or seven months to Easter 2015.
The panel was due to go on display in Didcot after the signalling system for the South West is centralised later this year, but that time-frame has now been extended.
Danny Scraggins, of the Swindon Panel Society, said: ^While it is disappointing that we won^t gain possession of our panel asset as soon as we would have liked, this does actually work fairly favourably for the Society.
^The building at Didcot will be a lot further progressed, if not completed, by the time the panel closes. The extra time allows us further breathing space in fundraising for the move.
^It^s possible that it could even give us the time to raise enough to secure the ^whole lift^ option, which would bring great benefit to the speed and ease of the move and the reinstatement.
^It would almost certainly be true to say that securing a ^whole lift^ operation in December 2014 or Easter 2015 will see the panel working at Didcot earlier than if it was a ^dismantle^ job in August 2014.^
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