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    There will still need to be guards accommodation and an emergency equipment cabinet somewhere on the train
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    Special permission has to be sought these day for loco's to cross the high level
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    That looks great, far better than mine which I'm considering scrapping and making storage sidings if I get round to doing some modelling
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    Although the 68 and 88 look similar and share a lot of components you couldn't easily convert one to the other. The 88 diesel engine wouldn't be any use for say Northallerton to Middlesbrough either,well not at any decent speed!
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    As nice as they are to see,i can't get my head round a driver operating his own locomotives. What would happen in the event of an incident,he would be the bloke downloading the OTMR.
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    I reckon Chris's head needs a new coat of something, I met him a couple of times last year but I hadn't realised the old super perm was down to the wood!
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    I reckon there will be a drinks machine in the second coach that has a pound coin stuck in it and no 7up and the third coach is a bit cold....... Non of it has been built yet guys, I've known for a year but obviously couldn't mention it here. We'll have to wait and see :-)
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    They could have used the outrigger wheel as a retractable trolley pole!! By 66 the B47 fleet was in massive contraction,the pure bomber varient went in 65 and the reconnaissance versions following in 67, some weather and electronic versions lasting until 69. A shame as there were well over 2000 built,they didn't share there bigger brother's long life
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    Even in push pull mode the only things to couple are 2 ETH cables 2 air pipes and a jumper and a coupling of course. Should take less than a minute to do all of those
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    If you model the B36 as an A or B model ,they didn't have jets although to me one of the charms of the B36 is TEN engines!
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    Cheers Chris I wonder what they did about crossing timings, I cant really believe something so primative was done so late. The jet engines they used were 20 years old even then
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    Havent the 185s been permanatly derated to save fuel ? The 68 seems pretty good on fuel so i reckon it will be cheaper to run
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    No its called getting stuck in and getting dirty! When I was younger and fitter could multi up a pair of locos in less than 30 sec its all technique. But the instant a train stops , a shunter cuts the loco off, off it goes and another comes on, as the driver changes ends the shunter ties on, the guard is at the back, brake test done, right away off we go!
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    Thanks for that Chris, It appears that the diesel engine maybe still present on the RDC looking at the slow speed moves. I hope it had a robust final drive isolation system. I was always under the impression that the pod was a B47 one,but in an early shot in the film it shows the pod with the intakes closed off something which the B36 could do when not using its jets. So the film is right it being a B36 one not a B47 one
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    If staff were taught to act like railwaymen instead of falsely smiling androids trains can change from diesel to electric in about 5 minutes!
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    I think to be honest they will be faster than the 185s which are about 700hp per car now they have been debated. Quite often a car is switched out. The 68s are VERY fast sub 20sec to 60 light engine and about 8sec 50 to 70 when accelerating. I reckon the new coaches will be about 35t so with just 5 on they are going to be fast.
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    I think the 68s are to be used on Middlesbrough services
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    68s can be reconfigured to do 125
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    That thing , bizarrely looks like a 19th century American loco! Even has a massive headlamp
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    It also amazes me that the track wasn't exactly the greatest, I don't thing the whole thing was ever the safest high speed rail experiment. Good job the B58s were still in service or it may have had a pair of J79s on roof and gone faster still!
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    Is the RDC with the B47 jet pod still the fastest traction to ran on US rails?
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    I'm coming round to the idea that it isn't that rare, so may build a 60s BR office block on the platform with it. Call it Glaven house after the local river and that will be the area manager Cley on sea offices
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    1:42 isn't too far out,especialy for the buildings. A block of flats or offices would be quite tall in 1:42 scale. Even now it's probably the easiest and reasonably priced way of creating large structures in O scale
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    Are GB involved at Scunthorpe now? Their ex Norway loco's that are there.
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    Cheapo electrification,pacers and the APT killed were all down to ONE particular government. Since privatisation the rail industry has not experimented with anything preferring to adapt often inferior foreign products for this country
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