Protect and Survive on the railways

So archingly British defeat was never a consideration.

 

I had to watch all three parts just so I could be certain that the
lazy bastards only worked 30 minutes before having a break. It's no
wonder it took so long to defeat the jerries.

 

So long as he inspected his length.

 

No shortage of manpower. What was it, 8 people to lob the contents of a
bucket of dust around while another 4 or 5 sat in the train drinking tea?


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I love this kind of stuff.

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"Hello, may I come in?"

More madly British 1940s railway stuff:

 

cock, pressed send accidentally:



Sad thing is most of the works are now industrial estates - although I've
had an engine on the actual traverser in pt2 (unfortunately now defunct).

Great stuff - how could we lose with the whole men in sheds on an
industrial scale approach.

 

Eastleigh works also made Spitfires, I'm surprised the film didn't
mention it.

The Eastleigh allocated engines used to carry this plaque on the
bodysides:
http://www.depotplaques.com/eastleigh.jpg

My old depot, Westbury, had this:
http://www.depotplaques.com/westbury.jpg

 

They weren't exactly little:
http://members.tripod.com/~Mark_Williams/Class33_046.htm

Neither were the engines (me as scale!)
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/images/cl33-castlecary-1992.jpg

 

heh. "poke stick".

Reminds me of the NBC drills in the army - seems things hadn't changed
much from the 40s! I remember reading one of the Bravo Two Zero type
books about Gulf War 1 - "we figured if chemical weapons were used we
would be fucked whatever happened, so we binned the NBC kit", or
something along those lines.

 

Well, the first 39 water-displacement treatments must have been
worse than the 40th, too.

Although I rather understand that in a war-footing basis, the
different numbers refer to specific applications; you can just say "for A use
No. 1, for B use No. 2, for C use No. 3, and for anything else gawdelpyou."

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Dr Ivan D. Reid posted:

Preparations A to G can't have been much fun either.

I think No. 9 got quite a bit of use.

 

Why are those two little stormtrooper stlye Homer Simpsons doing nailed to
the front ot that loco? Apart from being ornamental, that is?



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27 way jumpers for multiple working:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_working

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

I've often wondered this. When you've got multiple locos running banked,
how easy is it to "balance" the engines? Do you end up with potential
wheel-slip on one?

 

Yes, the older locos aren't balanced as such. Each has it's own load
regulator - an electro- mechanical device that rearranges traction motors
(series, series & parallel, all parallel) on diesel electrics based on
loco speed and current draw.

If you do get wheel slip on one (and you do) you ease back and reduce
power on both.

In "tandem" working - where there is no multiple control but a driver on
each loco - the balancing is done by the drivers.

On the old fashioned slam door diesel mechanical units (DMUs) there was a
switch which would cycle the tacho reading for each of the underslung
diesel engines on the train - the driver would select the highest revving
one and base gear changes on that.

Modern stuff uses computers to deliver power to individual wheelsets so
wheelslip isn't an issue as such.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

(Snip Explanation)

I am much obliged. Sounds like it has the potential to get... exciting.

 

Wheelslip isn't exciting, it's annoying, it impedes progress.

Wheelslide on the other hand...

 

I also didn't explain the load regulator fully as it also controls the
weak fields (gets around back EMF) but that doesn't matter for the
purposes of wheelslip.

I was taught all this over 20 years ago now. I feel rather elderly.

 

Unbelievable.