Is my colleague's parking bad? (trains)

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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 689

Jay leno wrote:

@N N N, Welcome aboard ....

Well I'm onboard again on Tuesday 16:10 from New Street to Euston .... can't afford first class this time budgets are tight like everywhere these days. Just make sure we get there on time please? bow_down

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

@ N N N Yeah I'll make sure if its me (Not got my hours for next week yet) (PM Me I might be able to help you get a 1stAPT)

If your interested in a video of me driving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgCqYgkiFmo (Sorry for bad audio)

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:42 pm

That's fair bobbing along Jay, though Mr Shallow here spent most of the clip trying to work out if they were biscuits on the dashboard.. Smile

You never said, how fast do they go?

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

@RC Yeah they are buscuits/cakes from first class (You even see a cup of coffee Razz

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Top speed, 125mph (With plans to increase its licensed rating to 135mph) and they are AMAZING to drive, I have more videos if anyone is interested,

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:46 pm

they don;t look easy trains to drive . small front windows for a start even when i enlarged the size of the screen on you tube !

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

Where do you shovel the coal? Wink

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

Youd be surprised Smile

That video was taken by our Lisa and she didn't capture everything

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

Here is the safety video if you want a viewing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caj90Etnw3k

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:10 pm

^ Those fast trains come out of nowhere. I've been made to jump a couple of times waiting on the platform at Ally Pally stn when one has gone hurtling through. You think you'd hear them coming but you get about a second and a half's warning.

Do signalmen make you repeat important instructions or info to make sure the message was understood?

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

Yeah its alot like air traffic control ever since that incident. They are fast 125mph to be exact at times Wink

I actually know the MAN-EUS driver in that video Bill is a trainer, wouldn't hurt a fly

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:17 pm

Check this out its from the BBC website, this is Living, Breathing, Steam Trains.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7318.shtml?all=1&id=7318

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 3:14 pm

I know you're talking British trains here, but all the talk about steam trains reminds me of the year I went from San Francisco to Gilroy, CA, on a steam train. (Well, it was a steam engine pulling modern commuter train cars, but there was STEAM!) Very Happy

That puppy could move!

Every time we crossed a road, all the people waiting at the crossing were taking pictures and videos. No doubt many of them were there specifically to watch a steam engine chug past.

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 4:56 pm

You really have to keep your wits about you using these new fangled high speed trains. I can remember back in the old British Rail days when the biggest risk to life was eating one of the week old cheese and tomato sandwiches from the buffet car. Wink

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:15 pm

@jayleno: Thanks for the video.
You've got a machine that goes PING!, what's that all about?

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

It has two purposes, One it wakes you up and two it tells you when you approaching a signal and that ping you heard means good to go, and the long one means station approach/point (Switcher) approach.

Theres a multibeep which is a multiwarning.

Random Images taken today

Lisa's lunch

My train cab Smile

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:43 pm

Funny how there's no lasses in this thread. Wink

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 6:52 pm

excuse me ? yes i am actually female !

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

LOL I mention a lass (Look at my previous post) I posted some pictures for your looking

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:05 pm

Every time we crossed a road, all the people waiting at the crossing were taking pictures and videos. No doubt many of them were there specifically to watch a steam engine chug past

having been on a diesel locomotive rail tour with my boyfriend about 2 weeks ago i can tell you this . all of them were standing there to see the steam train go past . steam trains are amazing pieces of engineering . this fomr a person who is a lot more used to diesel !

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

Interesting thing about steam: since the piston is pushed for the whole stroke instead of just a quick push at the top, when it's going slower it has more power. I imagine that would be great for trains, especially the really heavy freight trains meeting "unexpected" hills.

BTW: who is Lisa?

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

One grandfather had been a railwayman that meant my gran got free rail travel and she'd take us on "the diesels".
Trips to big exotic places, like Glasgow Laughing

My other granpaw used to take me up to the bridge to watch the steam trains going by, we'd come back all sooty but happy ( ah the days before colour tv or computers ! )

@ music man I'm also a lassie

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:23 pm

BTW: who is Lisa?

let me guess friend of jays ? work collegue of jay's ? significant other of jays . one of the 3 i bet Smile

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

Lisa, Hmm She doesn't work in virgin Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

Cool stuff Jay - I bet if I started a thread about planes, no-one would give two shits.

Don't knock ATC - the wifey is one of those.

I must confess to being a Train Simulator player Laughing

I keep getting told off for blasting the horn too much though - when is it acceptable to do so?

Also, what's the stopping distance from 125 to 0?

What about estimating when it's time to slow down? In the planes, we have all kinds of Nav aids to help. Does it just take intimate track knowledge in this case?

Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:13 pm

Craig007
The stopping distance is upto 2000 metres, that is how far we had to get from the train if it derailed, before putting down detonators, front and rear and if a junction was included, that as well.

That was on the london underground railways.

Your right about the road knowledge for stopping, signals, bridges, buildings the feel of the train, on certain parts the track and the sound it makes, all come second nature to train drivers in reading the road and stopping, when and where required.

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