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A 57 has failed so the 08 got a run out tonight with the ECS▸ for the sleeper: http://twitpic.com/186dochttp://twitpic.com/186f1mAn unexpectedly pleasant end to the day! Amazing to think these nearly 60 year old machines are still in front line service doing exactly what they were designed for. Top stuff! |
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2010, 02:28:15 » |
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You know - I may have my own share of rail nightmares - I think I am the 21st centuries reginald perrin (although this year I've gone UDI and worked from home and no one has complained yet - maybe its old age!)
Maybe my absence is why no major f ups on the cotswolds......
anyway - I have never seen somethng that odd - and I would have noticed it!
Why do nice noticable things never happen when I'm around
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Ditched former sig - now I need to think of something amusing - brain hurts -I'll steal from the master himself - Einstein:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2010, 09:43:35 » |
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Yep really versatile locos pull well but not fast.
Spent a happy morning on one shunting East Croydon Goods (long Gone).
Remember the Reading pilot disapearing wrong line down the Up Relief towards Tilehurst and coming back a little later hauling a dead 47 and 6 Mark 2s XC▸ train.
Used to see tham at Wimbledon working the Norwood - Wimbledon via Waddon pick up goods.
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Electric train
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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2010, 11:13:25 » |
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Did one of my apprenticeship mechanical phase tests honing a set of bearings on an 08 at OOC▸ , also they were good for learning about the basics of diesel electric traction and series and parallel running of traction motors no good though for learning about field diverts though
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2010, 11:29:31 » |
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Did one of my apprenticeship mechanical phase tests honing a set of bearings on an 08 at OOC▸ , also they were good for learning about the basics of diesel electric traction and series and parallel running of traction motors no good though for learning about field diverts though
 That's all Greek to me  . Wot I do know is they got 3 axles coupled together and always look like they be travelling backwards!  |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2010, 13:00:10 » |
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Did one of my apprenticeship mechanical phase tests honing a set of bearings on an 08 at OOC▸ , also they were good for learning about the basics of diesel electric traction and series and parallel running of traction motors no good though for learning about field diverts though
That's all Greek to me . Wot I do know is they got 3 axles coupled together and always look like they be travelling backwards! Them 3 axle coupling have white metal journal bearings, these white metal journals at made slightly oversize to the axle to make the fit just so the meal is scraped by hand checking the fit as you go with a die called engineers blue |
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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JayMac
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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2010, 14:09:08 » |
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Did one of my apprenticeship mechanical phase tests honing a set of bearings on an 08 at OOC▸ , also they were good for learning about the basics of diesel electric traction and series and parallel running of traction motors no good though for learning about field diverts though
That's all Greek to me . Wot I do know is they got 3 axles coupled together and always look like they be travelling backwards! Them 3 axle coupling have white metal journal bearings, these white metal journals at made slightly oversize to the axle to make the fit just so the meal is scraped by hand checking the fit as you go with a die called engineers blue Eh?  |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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Boppy
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2010, 12:59:21 » |
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Great pics!
Would love to have seen it in action.
Boppy.
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inspector_blakey
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« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2010, 17:39:02 » |
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I had thought that getting an 08 from Old Oak into Paddington would involve a small festival of paperwork (I'm assuming they have no ATP▸ , OTMR▸ , etc etc) so it's good to see that sensible things like this do still happen!
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smokey
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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2010, 19:40:36 » |
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As a former Shunter, The Job not the Loco, it's one hell of a Ride bouncing around on the Shunters Platform at the front of these 08's, it might only be 15 MPH but in rough yards....... GREAT FUN.
Yep I'm back.
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2010, 19:48:09 » |
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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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Phil
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« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2010, 19:57:09 » |
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Indeed! Well said, Chris. Really good to see you back, Smokey.
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12hoursunday
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2010, 12:54:14 » |
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I had thought that getting an 08 from Old Oak into Paddington would involve a small festival of paperwork (I'm assuming they have no ATP▸ , OTMR▸ , etc etc) so it's good to see that sensible things like this do still happen!
TPWS▸ is required, and they are fitted! Not sure if the OTDR▸ is standard on these and as I have taken my name off the traction I don't get on 'em enough when at the Marsh lately to have noticed. |
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Boppy
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« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2010, 14:11:38 » |
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Happened again last night!
Always puts a smile on my face to see "Dusty" sitting there at the end of platform 1.
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BBM
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« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2010, 14:34:52 » |
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Happened again last night! And again this morning! |
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