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« Reply #615 on: December 06, 2018, 00:02:34 »
Quote from: paul7755 on December 05, 2018, 22:13:14

Is it ‘attention’ or energising & testing Cocklebury sidings?

Paul

So it would seem. I've seen a switch-on time of 0700, next Sunday, 9th.

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« Reply #616 on: December 07, 2018, 16:49:55 »

UK▸ (United Kingdom) Rail Forums report a 387 working from Reading to Newbury and back (5Z36), last night/early hours.

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« Reply #617 on: December 07, 2018, 18:08:04 »
Quote from: onthecushions on December 07, 2018, 16:49:55
UK▸ (United Kingdom) Rail Forums report a 387 working from Reading to Newbury and back (5Z36), last night/early hours.

It must be true, it’s on YouTube (after about 90 secs):  https://youtu.be/ylMwCQfW2wY

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« Reply #618 on: December 14, 2018, 13:58:41 »
I was at Paddington at about 8am on Wednesday morning and there seemed something different about it.  After I had walked up the platform a bit I realised what it was - No diesel fumes!  There was not a diesel train in the place. 
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« Reply #619 on: December 14, 2018, 15:36:11 »
That’s good. Now we’ll be able to sniff the fresh air of the Burger King exhaust system so much better...

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« Reply #620 on: December 14, 2018, 17:12:46 »

...and the scented aromas of the SLE/Ps' direct track discharges.

Good news is that the Preston - Manchester wiring works. See:

https://twitter.com/Auriga_ZA/status/1073048856328318976

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« Reply #621 on: December 15, 2018, 01:30:15 »
Nice! I might get to use that next July.
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« Reply #622 on: December 15, 2018, 08:46:26 »
Quote from: ellendune on December 14, 2018, 13:58:41
I was at Paddington at about 8am on Wednesday morning and there seemed something different about it.  After I had walked up the platform a bit I realised what it was - No diesel fumes!  There was not a diesel train in the place. 


The last 2 years has seen a massive change to the traction types in Paddington possible the biggest change in half a century.

The 21st century class 800 do not jar with the old Victorian station at all, it has absorbed the change very well.

Having worked in Paddington station in the 1970/80's posibly at its peak diesel opperating era I find the current 2018 evironment much nicer, its cleaner and quiter although there was a certain industrial vibe in the 70/80's but then there was GPO▸ (Government Printing Office, or possibly General Post Office - now referred to POT▸ (Post Office Telecommunications) - depending on context), parcels, news paper traffic on top of the pasanger traffic then now the station is about moving people but thats just how the world has moved on.
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« Reply #623 on: December 15, 2018, 20:42:53 »
For those who know far more than I do with regards to this subject
I wondered if this would be of interest
http://www.ocs4rail.com/download/178/

I should add that's a bit of a large file .
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« Reply #624 on: December 15, 2018, 22:20:55 »
Quote from: Western Pathfinder on December 15, 2018, 20:42:53
For those who know far more than I do with regards to this subject
I wondered if this would be of interest
http://www.ocs4rail.com/download/178/

I should add that's a bit of a large file .

It's* not new - it's been referred to and linked to here before - but it is a new version (issue 5 vs 4) It now loads from a new source, which is where the old link (at railwaysarchive/OLE▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE")) now transfers. I can't tell you what's changed, but he promises "additional sections and diagrams, plus photo refresh".

* I should have said "it" is Garry Keenor's "Overhead Line Electrification for Railways".
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« Reply #625 on: December 16, 2018, 13:23:19 »
When is the BPW» (Bristol Parkway - next trains) power being switched on?. I believed it was to be xmas.
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« Reply #626 on: December 16, 2018, 13:27:17 »
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That’s good. Now we’ll be able to sniff the fresh air of the Burger King exhaust system so much better...

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Why?. does it stink.
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« Reply #627 on: December 18, 2018, 13:16:54 »
Once again IB25 Pad / Swi left Swindon “Pan up “  slowing to a near stop before recovering the situation by dropping the pan and starting the Diesel engines. Could as Grahame sujested last time been “ testing/ training or intentionally done “ or another case of these so called professional drivers being “ a sleep at the wheel “
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« Reply #628 on: December 18, 2018, 14:18:37 »

I think that the approved stage of the Didcot-Swindon wiring actually ends not in the station but at Rushey Platt, a Western suburb of Swindon. Drivers may have the option of changing over there.

Just a thought.

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« Reply #629 on: December 18, 2018, 15:05:59 »
It sounds like Drkpm just has a disliking of drivers for some reason.
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