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Unusual sight on Blackfriars bridge
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"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message ... AIUI it ran Derby RTC - St Pancras - Cricklewood - South Tottenham - Liverpool Street - Cambridge (booked 14.47) - King's Lynn - Cambridge (booked 17.18), and then stabled overnight. I've not seen any Tuesday details. Just "on holiday" then? :-) -- Brian "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman." |
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
(Boltar) wrote: Just saw a Network Rail test train go over the bridge southbound, top and tailed with a pair of class 37s. Not sure if they came up the incline from City Thameslink. Probably was quite a loud event if they did, pity I missed it. Is that the one that was in Cambridge on Monday night? Topped and tailed by 37607 & 37069. Probably the same one that I saw yesterday at Clapham Junction and today at Peckham Rye. AIUI it ran Derby RTC - St Pancras - Cricklewood - South Tottenham - Liverpool Street - Cambridge (booked 14.47) - King's Lynn - Cambridge (booked 17.18), and then stabled overnight. I've not seen any Tuesday details. With these things taking all kinds of unusual routes, how do they cope with the need for the driver to have route knowledge? Keep changing drivers all over the place? -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Anyone willing to give up a little fun for tolerance deserves neither |
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On 20 Jun, 12:28, David Cantrell wrote:
With these things taking all kinds of unusual routes, how do they cope with the need for the driver to have route knowledge? Keep changing drivers all over the place? Perhaps theres some low maximum speed and train weight below which a driver can drive any route because he'll be able to pull up before he reaches any red signal after first seeing it? B2003 |
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On 20 Jun, 14:15, Boltar wrote:
On 20 Jun, 12:28, David Cantrell wrote: With these things taking all kinds of unusual routes, how do they cope with the need for the driver to have route knowledge? Keep changing drivers all over the place? Perhaps theres some low maximum speed and train weight below which a driver can drive any route because he'll be able to pull up before he reaches any red signal after first seeing it? B2003 Conductors? |
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"Surely the clearances arn't *that* tight? Besides , didn't they extensively rebuild that part of the tunnel in the last few years? Perhaps they improved the clearances while they were at it and these restrictions no longer apply. " Whilst work may have happened on the southern end of the new Thameslink station box at St Pancras, where the track is relatively straight, I am not aware of any work on the reverse curves (the Hotel Curves) between KX Thameslink and the new station box. These are, I believe, the main constriant to the route clearances. BTW how do you improve clearances in a brick tunnel under a builidng,? OC |
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Doh! Of course it is not the Hotel Curves. The constraints in the
Midland tunnels are significant. With even more difficulty I suspect if there is a Grade 1 listed structure on top. OC |
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