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Well, we have come to my Day 9 entry, my final day at my Work Experience:
Today (Friday), was my last day of my placement with Chiltern Railways at Aylesbury Depot. I was working Upstairs on the North Driving Car of Class 165 No. 165010 and the South Driving Car of Class 165 No. 165027.
We started off working on A & D doors of the North Driving of 010. Our first job was clean off the old grease from the rubber seal between the doors and then reapplyling new grease. This was
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Day 8 at Aylesbury Depot was as follows:
Today I worked both 'Upstairs' and 'Downstairs' on the North Driving Car of a Class 168/1, No. 168110 ( the real vision of my Model!). We started off by checking the brake pads. This is done by sliding a chunk of metal 13mm deep inbetween the brake disc and the section that holds on to the brake pads. We found that the outer brakepad of wheel 2 was out of spec. Wheels are counted clockwise from the second man's side of the unit (if I remember
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Day 7 of my Work Experience was as follows:
Today I was working on the North and South Middle cars of a Class 168/0 No. 168004. We started by replacing on the LED lights on the Oil reserve control panel of the North Middle Car (for more on what the oil reserve control panel does see last entry here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/blog/424/entry-3547-work-experience-with-chiltern-railways-day-5-6/). When the engine oil is low, a Red LED on the panel lights up and then flas
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Sorry I'm abit late with these entries, been behind on Blog entries lately! So:
Day 5:
On day 5, I worked on the north driving car of a Class 165, No. 165011, again we were working on the underframe and engine (aka downstairs). We started by checking the brakepad clearances, then changed 2 of the 16 brakepads that are on the car. The pads come in two parts and are changed by simply realising a single clip and sliding them out.
We then went onto take oil samples from the car'
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This entry is split in Day 3 and 4, due to me going to my club last night and not being able to write my entry for yesterday:
Day 3:
Right half way through my first week and loving every minute of it! My Third day was as follows:
Got to the Depot around 7:40, went to get my tag (a tag is hung on the 'not to be moved' board on unit and tells everybody who is working on the unit) and went to see who was I working with. First we went to get a Class 168/0, No. 168002, ready for a
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A run through of my Secound day (or first full day) of Work experience:
Got on the 7:15 train again, then went to the depot and got my boiler suit on. Waited around in the mess room for couple of minutes before going off with my apprentice to work on the south driving car of a Class 168/1, No. 168109, We were working downstairs (downstairs being the Underframe and upstairs being the Interior).
We started off by testing the TPWS (Train Protection and Warning System) overspeed sens
Hi Guys,
Well as you may well know, I'm doing my Work Experience with Chiltern Railways at their Aylesbury Depot. I started it today (Monday 26th April) and will be there for 2 weeks until the 7th May. So here's a run through my first day under the 'employment' of Chiltern Railways:
My Work Experience placement starts at 8:00am, so I got the train from Great Missenden Station at 7:14am, with it getting in at 7:30am. After hanging around the station for 15 minutes, I went over to the Depo
