Jitmen

Had a rummage through some old pictures and a quick look at PC-3, in my words it's the top yoke/slider for the tilt mechanism, I'm guessing the drive bogie is hanging off?

 

from looking at it I'm only guessing that you could place the top yoke back into the sliders and rotate it, then the bogie should snap back in, the drive shaft might need to be removed them refitted once the power bogie is back in place. check the fit as I would have thought it's not something that just drops off,

 

Here's an old pic, been on before but you can see it marked within the red circle, Hope it's of some help,

I stood on the train by accident and when I ran it the train derailed and the yoke fell out.I can't refit as the drive shaft is in the way and i'm not sure how to remove it and I'm nervous about breaking the shaft?

any advice on the best way to fit this bogie part 32 back onto my train?

Got my apt-e running now,glass of wine in hand,pizza in oven all's well with the world,merry xmas

just got my class 71" E5022 "   £109 brand new of ebay,looks and runs perfect.

No problems with mine,love it.

Just a pity the powers that be wouldn't let us open E-train for the occasion. 

 

The pro-steam lobby up there may be on borrowed time though, hopefully..........

They had a deltic (koyli) outside open to public so it would have been nice to have apt-e open.I just spotted for the first time a middle piece of the apt-e outside uncovered which looked a bit sad and open to the elements

Went to the Flying Scotsman shed bash at Shildon today,nice to see people taking photos of the apt-e also.

What was the name of the programme?

One show on bbc1

BBC One show earlier this evening featuring our very own Mr Tilt.

Then later in the same piece, Brian Marshall (?) finally explaining to a national audience why it got a bad press on the initial run as the journos were busy in the bar the night before.

 

Cheers,

Mick

Just watched it on iPlayer,good stuff, btw read an article in railways illustrated today called hst versus apt and apart from the usual talk of motion sickness it mentioned the danger of the two trains sticking in tilt mode then colliding when passing each other which I had never thought about before.

At Wensleydale diesel gala today,got talking to some teenage train spotters who started because of the BBC 4 train spotting live ,showed then some pictures of the apt-e on my phone and they could not believe it was a British train as they said it looked too cool

The APT got a brief mention on last night's show(train spotting live) saying that it tilted too far and that it caused passengers to feel sick as the pendolina does not tilt as far and so is more comfortable,they also said if we had gone with Brunels wide gauge instead of standard gauge trains would be able to go faster and be more comfortable and reduce the need to tilt?

Some footage of the HST-P last night,electric trains tonight may have something about the apt-p ?

Anyone else watching train spotting live on bbc4?

more pictures from Crewe trip.

Great day today at NYMR diesel gala,pulled by a deltic,26er,40,37,and a 25er

What trains did Kit work on before and after the apt-e?

Was the one driver seat on the apt-e a sneaky ploy by BR to introduce one driver only cabs on the apt-p or was it just a one off for experiment?

Phew, finished the Karry Kase in time for DEMU tomorrow. 

 

Now it has blue stripes, OK not EXACTLY the correct blue, but close enough for Government work, and a set of doors, turbine grilles, 25 kV warning signs and some 'Danger this gap may close' signs. It's also got one windscreen wiper so it must be PC2. 

 

The last pic shows the LocoLift in position to load or unload the train, an excellent piece of work for sure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that's fantastic I would buy one of those.

APT-E at Shildon

• APT-P AT Crewe

Snap! First visit to Crewe yesterday, mainly to see the APT-P, but had a great time also in the Exeter West signalbox watching the guys responding to tricky scenarios thrown at them by the railway simulator.

In the last couple of years we've now been inside an APT-P, the prototype Deltic, and a Vulcan; and stood next to the APT-E (OK, one of those is an aeroplane not a train, but all great British engineering marvels!)

Last year they had open days once a month on the apt-e,got to sit in the cab,see the engine and sit in the VIP coach but did not get in the control room coach,wonder if they still have open days?

Great day at Crewe today seeing the apt-p ,wish it had a longer life in service.

Going down to Crewe Sunday to see the apt-p

I wonder if I could get away with one on my layout version of the RTC?

 

Cheers,

Mick

Rapido's next model

What were the main stumbling blocks about the apt-p apart from the so called motion sickness reported by the press?