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As Charlton is a self confessed Gun Nut, did he make a speech half way
through declaring that if he had been tooled up, the engine wouldn't
have dared to fail?

 

Focke-Wulf had successful designs flying in WW2.

 

Ah, brow beating time again.

Fare rises capped to 1% below inflation my arse.

What do you reckon the overall rise in fares has been compared to
inflation since privatisation Paul?

But Paul, the report was *written by* qualified rail safety experts.



I don't want to barney with you mate, you are taking my crit personally
and you shouldn't. I have a bee in my bonnet about the way the public
gets treated, but it ain't your fault.

 

Correct. MPI is only for ferritic (magnetic) steels, Dye Penetrant is for
both magnetic and non-magnetic. Although MPI is almost always done where
possible as it's quicker, easier and not as messy.
MPI/DP is normally supplementary to RT/UT on normal butt welds.

Also correct, a lot of things affect whether UT can be successfully
carried out. There is normally a minimum thickness of 6 or 8mm in common
specifications. There has to be a sufficient scanning space on each side
of the weld, or the inspection can only be considered 'limited'.
Stainless is also a bastard to do UT on because of the grain structure
after welding.

 

Well about 7 years ago I needed to know for the whole of the UK rail
network where the tunnels were, how deep the cuttings were etc. etc.
etc. Railtrack didn't (at the time) have this information and I had to
commission the Ordnance Survey to create maps for me (at a cost of about
100k) which included the cutting depth estimation (or at least which
cuttings were >3m deep and which weren't).

To calibrate this I needed to get some measurements made. There are
some test trains ran by Seri (I think the names wrong) out of somewhere
near Derby that do the surveying you mentioned. The cost of this was
outside of my budget for a good sample.

I searched for an alternative... there's a company in Poole or
Bournemouth who have a range of videos; the "Cab ride series", and no
it's not sir.tony dogging again. Basically a driver/drivers have put
video recorders in the cab and taped journeys along certain routes
giving you a running commentary. I used this to 'estimate by eye' which
cuttings were less than 3m deep to check Ordinance Survey's work.

Fortunately the videos I ordered came in plain brown packaging.

 

They have (or had) the information on the tunnels. I know this for a
fact. Where they are and how long they are in geo-referenced .dxf
files. I can probably look up the contact details of the bloke in
Railtrack who had this information; email me if it's of interest.

 

fx: waves frantically- whilst not a trainspotter I can find a source for
the information... if there's a finder's fee!

 

I have had the pleasure of travelling Swiss Rail yes, and jolly quiet,
punctual and cheap it was too. And the gents loos has unbroken mirrors and
*SHAVER POINTS* in. But I digress. I was offered a job there, but turned it
down

What is the cause of these frequent goods derailments Ivan?

 

I owned a bit of Railtrack too, for a few hours in 96 or so. I sold it
to the highest bidder almost immediately after I bought it and made a
few quid. Which was nice.

 

The failure of Ariane 501 was called (in house) an accountancy problem
as the people controlling the purse strings would not authorise funding
to do a full walk-through of the flight soft ware controlling it, as it
had worked flawlessly for 90 launches on the 4 series. (It was 95% the
same.) They were only funded to test the new (5%) interface stuff.
Oops!

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote

I have never even visited Switzerland but BR kept me regularly informed
by tannoy during that time I commuted using them. At least once a week
there were delays because of a shunting accident/minor derailment in
Stratford.

Then there was the overhead cable down just outside Bethnal Green, also
weekly and of course the equally regular points failure just outside
Liverpool St station.

For the morning inbound journey we had to rely on ordinary notice
boards.

 

Hurrah! I passed!

I knew that a metallurgy degree and working for a large manufacturer of
gas turbines and nuclear powerplants for over fifteen years would come
in handy one of these days. ;-)

 

Des was just a bit desperate to disagree...

 

spouted the following in

D'oh!

 

Yers, we have the S-61 and S-76 (B & C) taking off from Den Helder for the
Dutch offshore.

 

steve auvache <> spouted the following in

"We are sorry to announce that this years excuses are running approximately
3 months late..."

 

You're not building a 'really hot' central heating system in your shed are
you...

 

That's a good one.
In the French investigation of the Concorde crash, the three people
closest to the Concorde at take off (firemen I think) all gave statements.
There was no sign of these statements in the final report.
All of them said it was on fire well before it could have hit any piece of
metal on the runway. This piece of metal was given as *the* reason for the
fire.

 

**** no. The shed burned down three years ago.