That’s good.Made it on at Energlyn (was going to be there anyway), loads of seats.
Better carriages than GA use too!
Please see post #295 ...Do we know when the second set will be out? Monday 24th June possibly?
No it doesn't. As I understand it the coaches are not wired through for loco control, and they are not using TDM, so you can't control the second set from the front cab. That is the defining point about a DMU. If you were somehow driving from the cab of the rear loco of the front set and had coupled the multiple-working jumpers to the front loco of the second set, then the 2 locos would be working in multiple, but the train would not be a DMU.If you have the 2nd set the same setup, it does [make it a DMU].
I think the definition is that easy joining is possible of multiple sets, be they single parcels vehicles, motor luggage vans, and passenger train units of whatever length, so that all are under power with just the one driver. I would allow push-pull sets in if they were arranged so that a second set could be run from the front cab of the first set!DMUs imply passengers (or payload of some kind) in a driving/motor car. Unlike an HST, a push-pull 68+Mk.3 set, or a pair of 37s around some Mk.2s. Power/trailer combos like on many of the early DMUs are still DMUs- and things like a 442 is also a multiple unit with all the power in just one out of 5 cars.
HSTs can carry a payload in the power cars. Such as passengers' bikes or large items of luggage.DMUs imply passengers (or payload of some kind) in a driving/motor car. Unlike an HST, a push-pull 68+Mk.3 set, or a pair of 37s around some Mk.2s. Power/trailer combos like on many of the early DMUs are still DMUs- and things like a 442 is also a multiple unit with all the power in just one out of 5 cars.
Just morning/evening peak I'm afraidWill the 37s operate to Rhymney on Saturdays and like they did around 2004/2006 , would it be an all day service and not just a morning/ evening service.
No. It’s a Monday-Friday peak only operation. Nothing more.Will the 37s operate to Rhymney on Saturdays and like they did around 2004/2006 , would it be an all day service and not just a morning/ evening service.
This needs sorting out. If they're making sure people don't "window hang", surely they can make sure that the windows can be opened for legitimate ventilation purposes...My only issue is the strict security who threaten to throw you off if the window is even slightly ajar, despite it being 26 degrees and boiling in the vest.
My only issue is the strict security who threaten to throw you off if the window is even slightly ajar, despite it being 26 degrees and boiling in the vest.
I haven’t had any problems with being stopped from opening the windows. However, when I have opened them, I have opened them partially, not quite far enough for a head to pass through.Having ridden the evening service 4 times and the morning service twice, it has gotten calmer throughout the week, especially as people have worked out how to spread out. My only issue is the strict security who threaten to throw you off if the window is even slightly ajar, despite it being 26 degrees and boiling in the vest.
This needs sorting out. If they're making sure people don't "window hang", surely they can make sure that the windows can be opened for legitimate ventilation purposes...
Unless the saloon A/C has failed, why do windows need to be opened?This needs sorting out. If they're making sure people don't "window hang", surely they can make sure that the windows can be opened for legitimate ventilation purposes...
Why do you need to be in the vestibule? Unless it's rammed, sit or stand in the saloon.
Unless the saloon A/C has failed, why do windows need to be opened?
Unless the saloon A/C has failed, why do windows need to be opened?
Welcome to the forum Julian, and thanks for sharing your memories.As an old hand now partly retired, and having worked the 37s and LHCS up till what was supposed to be last run of the 37s and LHCS on the Rhymney Line on 10th December 2005, with Tom Clift alongside Dai Bevan in the cab of 37419 with wreaths I placed on the loco, I am amazed that the 37s and LHCS are once again on the Rhymney Line.
The 4 coach Mark 2 could provide much more capacity than a 4 set 150 or Pacer. I've had 660 passengers on the 4 x Mark 2s, and a quiet comfortable run in the coaches. OK the corridors and luggage compartment were also jammed full.
Well, next Monday morning I will wander over to see (hopefully) a class 37 and 4 mark 2 coaches leave Hengoed station for the first time in over 13 years.
Cheers,
Julian Atkins
I like to hear the engines. It was 30 years ago that I last followed 37s.Maybe security being cautious about droplights being open has something to do with the decapitation there was after window hanging from a 442 a few years back, along with the death of someone who was window hanging from a GWR HST last year.
Why do you need to be in the vestibule? Unless it's rammed, sit or stand in the saloon.
Enjoy the moment Julian.As an old hand now partly retired, and having worked the 37s and LHCS up till what was supposed to be last run of the 37s and LHCS on the Rhymney Line on 10th December 2005, with Tom Clift alongside Dai Bevan in the cab of 37419 with wreaths I placed on the loco, I am amazed that the 37s and LHCS are once again on the Rhymney Line.
The 4 coach Mark 2 could provide much more capacity than a 4 set 150 or Pacer. I've had 660 passengers on the 4 x Mark 2s, and a quiet comfortable run in the coaches. OK the corridors and luggage compartment were also jammed full.
Well, next Monday morning I will wander over to see (hopefully) a class 37 and 4 mark 2 coaches leave Hengoed station for the first time in over 13 years.
Cheers,
Julian Atkins
Lovely stuff Julian, thanks for sharing your memories.
I'm the guard in the above youtube clip, waving the flag and blowing the whistle. 4th December 2005 on the special 'gala' day organised by Graham Bunker and Tom Clift.
I'm also the guard on the following, which we thought was the last ever trip from Rhymney with the 37s and the LHCSs. Dai Bevan was driving, and Tom Clift is on the right hand side of the cab. There was a very brief reprise a few months later, but then it was all over.
There is a bit of a funny story to the above. I had to swap (give up) a week of restdays to get that turn off a colleague. I managed to acquire 6 detonators to put down as we left Rhymney for the last time. "The last trucks from Rhymney" was chalked on the end of the last coach" and we had 2 tail lamps. Just before the run round at Rhymney, Tom Clift handed me a plastic bag full of detonators, and said " When you do the ground frame, Julian, put these down ahead of the groundframe". I still have that plastic bag full of detonators, in a cupboard! I used my own supply that night. We also had detonators put down by the Bargoed signaller as we approached Bargoed on the viaduct.
You can see the crowd on the end of the platform on what was supposed to be the last run. Many of them old friends over the years.
It wasn't easy, but most of us loved those old 37s and the Mark 2s, and before them, the Mark 1s on the Rhymney Line.
We also had the odd 47 but this created rostering difficulties. Senior Rhymney driver Jeff Jones, after Tom Jackson had retired, told me on my first 47 run, "Don't shut the cab door, Julian, till you have stepped down!" "OK Jeff" I replied as I slammed shut the cab door after giving him the token, and the flush door pushed my feet off the top step, and I ended up on the ballast and with grazed knees as they bumped against the ends of the steps as I fell!
Cheers,
Julian