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TheSignalEngineer

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  1. Diodes for stopping backfeed through relay coils? If they are not there throwing the control switch will try to energise both sides of the Seep simultaneously depending on the internal arrangements in the relay.
  2. Both appear to have run this morning so they must have at least one line fit to pass traffic. I assume there are still rules for passing an important train through a possession. Many years ago I did the 'man with the red flag' act, walking through my possession at Acton Wells a safe distance ahead of an 08 checking the points were correct and secured to get the Guinness out of Park Royal.
  3. If it were in our line the MP would be out with his shovel this morning fully dressed in orange waterproofs to do a 'Levelling Up' photo shoot.
  4. I'm past doing it on an ordinary bike now but have done it a few times in the past even on an MTB. It's even tough (or slow) on an ebike. One day we were doing our old Kinder Round loop. over The Snake to Ladybower, Bamford, Castleton, Chinley, Hayfield and back to Glossop. Stopped at Hope for lunch and a westerly gale sprung up. Climbing up through the cutting above Castleton it was raining and the wind stopped me completely even with a motor. We raced back to Hope station and got the train to New Mills. Mam Nick from the Edale side is another killer.
  5. Last weekend I was travelling in one elsewhere (at low speed) that certainly had body panel rot. Not quite bad enough to examine the condition of the framework though. I think it is 45mph maximum. We discussed that with a lot of explanation as to how a lower speed isn't practicable and would require rewriting the timetable for just about every line in western Scotland north of the Clyde. You'll find it from about page 8 or 9 of the thread onwards.
  6. Somewhere in the dim and distant I did produce a scenario for a similar joint line to be built by the West Cornwall Railway and Bodmin & Wadebridge from Padstow through Wadebridge onto the Ruthernbridge Branch, Indian Queens for China Clay traffic and Newquay branch, then on to Truro (Newham) and a new deep water port at Falmouth.
  7. Mam Tor Road is pretty good on a mountain bike, almost as good as some Red sections at trail centres. Navigating round that step by the dog walkers is a bit technical and one section near the top is getting a bit narrow to ride. If you misjudge that one the best bet is to try to fall towards the high ground and let the bike go over the side if you have to. Must take the GoPro next time I'm over that way.
  8. Didn't really solve the issue, just cut off that end of Castleton to all but light vehicles. Only way in and out is Wynatt's Pass. It pleased some high-ups in the National Park and National Trust as they no longer had lorries past their mansions 😉
  9. A bit like the Mam Tor Road then. The council just kept levelling that up with more stone for about 50 years.
  10. I had one that didn't need a chip to sound like a Mirlees diesel.
  11. Weren't they operating Tangmere when it dropped a connecting onto the 3rd rail in 2014? From personal experience I think they may have been running 46115 when it failed (middle con rod bearing?) at Eccles in 2010. I had gone out to film it departing from Manchester Victoria. While I was waiting I did get my reward of filming a 66 thrashing up through Miles Platting with a loaded stone train. I later saw the railtour being pushed by the 47 on the back at Ordsall Lane.
  12. Tyseley's exemption expires this year. This was their position I posted based on their press release at the time of the WCRC judgement. Vintage Trains have agreed a CDL fitment programme with ORR and their stock now has retention tanks fitted. They are also fitting / reactivating air brakes on their stock.
  13. I believe that Red Panda are now owned by Phoenix Precision Paints. I bought a Red Panda wagon from the H&A stand at a show about 12 months ago so hopefully they are still be available as I need another chassis for a conversion job.
  14. And the spell checker is no use if you use the wrong word but spell it correctly
  15. From a press report last week it looks as if WCRC has no intention of fitting CDL this year. https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/03/west-coast-railways-submits-new-heritage-train-exemption-application.html
  16. The colour rendition of my two eyes is not an exact match.
  17. I was referring to the danger to Hornby. I know exactly what asset stripping is, having been taken over by a large comglomorate which was in turn 'merged' with another one. They didn't know the product, didn't know the market and were only interested in getting their cut. They bought and sold companies or reorganised every few week it seemed. All turned nasty in the end as the share price crashed due to problems with deliveries on hi-tech projects. I understand they managed to find enough buyers for the various product divisions amongst competitors to pay off the debts and not go into liquidation. Fortunately I had left long before that happened.
  18. If I were at Hornby I would be more worried at who was taking an interest in the company's shares. Fortunately there's still life in the hobby, we haven't yet got to a category for Asset Stripper of the Year'.
  19. A couple of examples from my past. First at Langley Green Middle. It's low for sighting under the footbridge. The R/H doll used to carry the distant arm for Langley Green East. Off topic note:- Tin shed on left is Cox & Danks who cut up a few locos in the 1960s including some Kings. Next a standard GWR bracket for the Up Through line at Leamington with Gallows Bracket extemside to the left foe the Up Platform. It hangs down for sighting under the canopy. This was its replacement. IIRC the red aspects were 16'6" Above Rail Level
  20. The Requirements were a minefield of Must Do, Desirable, contradiction and getout clauses. The 'Desirable Standard' structure gauge for steam and 3rd rail shown on the drawing in the Requirements was 15 feet above the running rail. Company loading gauges at the time of the 1928 Requirements varied between 13 feet and 13 feet 9 inches. The standard clearance above loading gauge was shown in the text as 12 inches. In certain circunstances this could be reduced as low as 6 inches with special permission from the Inspectorate.
  21. I've just corrected the platform headroom to 8 feet as in the Requirements in 1928 and 1950. My memory let me down but it is about 30 years since I personally signed off the paperwork for one. We did tend to design to have the bottom of the structure of a colour light at a bare minimum of 11 feet above rail rather than measuring from the platform. You would always get a clever b******** who would decide that rebuilding thesubstandard platform would after all be in the project the week after the signal had been installed. One Inspecting Officer seemed very keen on what he called the Umberella Effect. That was a SPAD caused by a driver not seeing a red aspect as a city gent was holding his open brolly in line of sight.
  22. It is the clearance to any part if the structure, be it post, flitches, arms. If a lower quadrant arm is hung down from the roof or a gallows bracket it would be to the tip ofthe arm in the OFF position
  23. It also depends where they were located if they were outside the minimum required clearance from the side of the track they could be any height. We had one at Langley Green where you could virtually step onto the landing from ground level. Different rules applied if situated on the passenger areas of a platform. In this situation the required clearance was the whole structure to be at least 6 feet back from the platform edge and providing 8 feet 6 inches clear headroom above the platform surface.
  24. Non-electrified lines loading gauge plus 12 inches was specified for steam traction at least as far back as the 1928 Requirements. If possible electrification was to be considered it was 15 feet above rail level.
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