Recent content by D7666

But, just to prove how complex this one is, or, if you want to read it another way, why the term "NR" is not the right one in isolation. Euston to Watford - which means all and any intermediate calls - is not all NR trains for staff oyster - the TfL staff doc explicitly states Euston...

25 kV sections ? The whole Chingford route might be off ? Those are questions, not statements.

Feed issues alone does not explain why all other trains surrounding 1Z2x were all reporting normally; the feeds feed all data from whatever server(s) forward, not individual trains with their own feeds. Suspect might have been due to some of the bobbins tour was doing ?

& yes it did run; while I was not on it I did see it into Victoria. But there was something amiss with whatever databases / feed both RTT and Traksy use concerning it as it disappeared completely from Traksy several times in the aftenoon after about 16:00 as I was looking at it for its...

Mentor. DB975091. 1954 built. 70 years old and could be found alongside new stuff like 730 or 810 or 805 etc. Again no claim for the absolute answer, but how about claim for current operational main line vehicles difference ?

I don't know. IIRC the workings were recorded in contemporary RCTS RO mags but I do not have these myself. The wording "Alton line" services rather than Alton might be better. The whole matter of why any Cep were assigned to SWD has been a matter of speculation ever since. BR and BR SR...

Can items count here that are nominally new but really are not all new because older components were recovered and used in the " new" build ? Specifically thinking of LU battery locos that all bar one batch had as bui!t ancient GE motors 2nd hand from passenger units and all bar one different...

others have answered in between, but I think in general you are confusing inter-unit and intra-unit power jumpers. (I'll stick with the term jumper albeit not exactly the correct one). units for working in tunnels /generally/ have no intra-unit jumpers i.e. each motor coach is /generally/...

Well beaten by 72TS and 730s that are side by side south of Harrow. As 730s late 2023 that is 51 years. Not a claim for the OP title though.

Ceps predated Kent coast. Protoype Cep and Bep were simply BR SR Mk1 express EMU versions of SR Cor and Buf, and were devised as standard units for all future BR SR electrifications. That they only ended up as a squadron fleet on Kent coast and no more built is technical drift (away from two...

FWIW the tender ITT went out for what is now Class 700 did specify ability to drive from rear cab using cctv when necessary. this feature was dropped from the actual tender and 700s can not do it. Like it or not, it IS a serious idea

A And per further upthread, it can not be that per se as a 73 car runs in the TRV train, car 666 is 73 stock. Yes 666 has been modified, but it physically fits, it has not had anything chopped out of it length wise or overhang wise, therefore only kinematic envelope has been altered TO MAKE IT...

Sorry but I do not understand. I am trying to understand this issue but so far none of the info available adds up; indeed some of it adds up to not making any sens at all. You now appear to be saying 1973 could not operate on the Bakerloo as the train whole length is too great to fit some...

1979 ? Only EIGHT years after 1971 then. Memory can lapse in 8 years. 2 memories. Two of us recall this. Our dates align. Late 1971 / early 1972 are ingrained in my memory as the D800 / D7000 rundowns ended / started, and for many other reasons. It has to be based on memory. We did not have...

In the 52 years from 1972 to 2024 I never ever had cause to question it was anything else. Most likely a trial version if not 'live' until mid 1973; live can have all sorts of different meanings, the engineers and developers could ave been using real data for Mendip stone long before handover...