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Modelling a traditional parcels train


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On 10/09/2020 at 19:48, TheSignalEngineer said:

Probably as much as young Mr Bullock reporting it consisting on one occasion of an EE Type 4 and a single 12T Van. 

 

 

On 10/09/2020 at 21:06, Kier Hardy said:

You mean something like this, as seen at Shenston Road, captured by Paul James.shenston_omwb231.jpg.0b2375e33ba16125a3c821ba5488e8e2.jpg


That’s the one thank you @TheSignalEngineer and @Kier Hardy. Just need to wind that headcode to 3V01.....

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1 hour ago, Northmoor said:

What must the acceleration have been like with this rake, a 2-car DMU plus FOUR vans (including two bogied)!

Hi Northmoor,

 

The two car unit with four 150 hp engines plus the trailing load gives about 3.5 hp per ton, compared to a western with 13 coaches at about 4.9 hp per ton.

Better than a HST with approximately 9hp per ton were the two car BRCW 110's with 11.25 hp per ton.

 

Gibbo.

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Note the chalk pumped out in the foreground.  This would mark locactions where the drainage had failed and the ballast became waterlogged; each train passing moves it about slightly and grinds it into a paste, which would be pumped out by the weight of the train and blown along in the  direction of travel.  It would occur with the limestone ballast on the WR on the Gwent and Somerset Levels, and you would have to brace yourself as the loco dropped a few inches, on rougher locos bottoming out the springs.  47s and 25s were particularly prone to this.

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28 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Note the chalk pumped out in the foreground.  This would mark locactions where the drainage had failed and the ballast became waterlogged; each train passing moves it about slightly and grinds it into a paste, which would be pumped out by the weight of the train and blown along in the  direction of travel.  It would occur with the limestone ballast on the WR on the Gwent and Somerset Levels, and you would have to brace yourself as the loco dropped a few inches, on rougher locos bottoming out the springs.  47s and 25s were particularly prone to this.

And leave it for long enough, something bottoming out its springs, derails.

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Mogul 6309 with a short class C train. The first vehicle is (I think) a 6-wheel Thompson BZ, followed by a what could be a couple of long Minks. Can't tell what the last vehicle is, but it has a Mk1 profile. Lots of detail at the base of the box (love the dustbin!!)

 

I really should know the location, but I'm stumped.
 

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