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Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
hi Bernie, I agree with Gordon, it soo nice to see things like that in person, Nice photos Bernie, best wishes, byron |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3213 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Collin County Sheriff's Office McKinney, Texas Facebook posting 2018-09-22 11:26 AM CDT Train derailment at Cr 558 and Cr 605 in Farmersville last night. We ask that you seek alternate routes to avoid this area as clean up is underway. (Tracks got washed out due to heavy rain fall): Image 1 Image 2 .... edit to add: Saturday September 22nd, 2018 :: 01:15 a.m. CDT |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19060 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
NYT - Grimy, Glorious, Gone. The Divergent Paths of 7 Train Stations Thanks for that. An interesting read. Grant Darwin NT |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
NYT - Grimy, Glorious, Gone. The Divergent Paths of 7 Train Stations +1 |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
NYT - Grimy, Glorious, Gone. The Divergent Paths of 7 Train Stations +1 |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Another interesting read (would takes weeks, maybe months, to go through it all I suspect). Google Arts & Culture- India's railways. Grant Darwin NT |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
Another interesting read (would takes weeks, maybe months, to go through it all I suspect). Spent a very pleasant hour or so going through this. Thanks, nice stuff! |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Remember the new trains which couldn't run in the North of England? Well, they can't run to the West, either. Paddington station: Passengers face major disruption Network Rail said the disruption was caused by "500m of extensive damage caused to overhead power lines in the Hanwell area yesterday evening". The cable damage was caused by a class 802 Hitachi train which was being tested between London and Bristol.Oh dear. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Oops...The cable damage was caused by a class 802 Hitachi train which was being tested between London and Bristol.Oh dear. A Hitachi spokesperson said that "after years of successful testing on the route" it was holding "a full and thorough investigation" to identify the cause of the damage.Funny that as the 802's only started being built In 2017. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Not to mention that the Paddington route is the latest / last mainline rail route into London to be electrified (and it's still unfinished). You'd have thought that they would have worked out how to do it by now. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
The 802 is a derivative of the "Javelin" which has been in service for a few years on HS1, but even so, to talk about "years" testing on the route is a bit of an exaggeration. I bet it's going to hurt someone's back pocket quite substantially by the time all the penalty charges are sorted out - I wouldn't want to be sitting in the offices of Hitachi Rail, Network Rail Infrastructure, the OLE installers, or any of their collective insurers just now as the bill will be well into six if not seven zeros. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Not to mention that the Paddington route is the latest / last mainline rail route into London to be electrified (and it's still unfinished). You'd have thought that they would have worked out how to do it by now.They did. :-) The Class 802s are broadly identical to the Class 800 bi-mode trains used in the Intercity Express Programme, and are used in a similar way; they run as electric trains where possible, and are equipped with the same diesel generator engines as the Class 800. However, they utilise higher engine operating power – 700 kW (940 hp) per engine as opposed to 560 kW (750 hp) – and are fitted with larger fuel tanks to cope with the gradients and extended running in diesel mode expected on the long unelectrified stretches they will operate on. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
By 'know how to do it', I was meaning putting up overhead wires that were robust enough to stand up to the English climate, and make connections with the passing trains that didn't tear the house down. Britain was slow to electrify (by comparison with our continental European neighbours), but I remember being at boarding school in Cheshire from 1960, arriving at almost exactly the same time as the first stretch from Crewe to Manchester was electrified. We were close enough to see the flashes from the electric sparks light up the night sky. Lessons learned from day one: start at the far end of the line, so mistakes don't shut down the busiest bit! |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30649 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
boss, the regulars were having issues, so we ... just like it says to do in what should be outdated standard ... ;-) |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65745 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Here's one of Thomas's weird cousins. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3213 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Britain's rail ticket-booking systems crashes Updated Train companies across the UK are unable to take online ticket bookings due to what has been described as a "national issue" with the country's reservation service. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30649 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1853 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
... Also not heard from David for 4 months, I hope he is OK and it is just his job keeping him away... Wondering if anyone found out what the deal was? Afaik, it was Feb when he went awol? |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3213 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
... Also not heard from David for 4 months, I hope he is OK and it is just his job keeping him away... David's last post here on main was 26 Feb 2018. His PC main is still sending / receiving results. |
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