Recent content by Llama

The 195s and 331s seemed to have their A/C set a couple of years ago to only allow cooling down to 7°C lower than detected outside temperature, so that's not so great for temperatures over 35°C. Although hopefully the fact the A/C should reduce the humidity as well as temperature would still...

769s and 390s can't obey MU speeds. Apologies if you are already aware of this.

769 movements are now to run in diesel mode throughout and must not be used in AC mode until further notice apparently.

Blackpool/Hazel Groves can be worked by any of: Manchester Victoria drivers (partially or throughout. Only two links sign Oxford Rd - Hazel Grove, but all links sign Oxford Rd - Blackpool North), Buxton drivers (partially or throughout), Piccadilly drivers (Oxford Rd to Hazel Grove, possibly...

Not the first such spad on Heaton with similar results. There was one about 15 years ago.

Not necessarily, it's not had a TSR for at least 8 years and I'm fairly sure even before then, there was a long-standing TSR through Holme tunnel and the whole route via Copy Pit seems to develop a new bump or dip every time there's a monsoon or drought but no TSR. The line speed is different...

Summit Tunnel on the L&Y is similar, but there's a reduction in permissible speed which is signed at the entrance to the tunnel in the down direction. The actual reduction commences much further in advance, about 7/8 the way through the tunnel, at 16m 40ch which is about 24ch on approach to the...

As far as I know the FNW Piccadilly - New St / International service with 309s was two return trips per day and lasted until the early 2000s, although I think possibly by the time the service was panned it was run using 175s. There were also the FNW Manchester Airport-Euston services formed of...

Weren't CT still using 323s on New St - Lime St stoppers then?

Platform 5 Oxford Rd has been used, I've taken 331s out of there.

I'm making an assumption here that train wire 4 is a loop around the train capable of being energised by any one of the start batteries on the train - we were told that TW4 was the electrical equivalent of the brake pipe on an air-braked train but I rather think that's too simple a comparison

I do remember on a depot isolating the start battery on the end vehicle on two units coupled together years ago with a trainee to try to prove that the train could still be moved because the feed for TW4 would simply be found from elsewhere in the train. I don't think there is necessarily away...

Fairly correct, as I understand it the brake control circuits (supplied by train wire 4) are supplied by the start battery on the rearmost vehicle, unless that start battery is unavailable - in which case the supply is taken from the start battery on the vehicle within the train consist which...

No I was judging it by actual acceleration 'feel' as the notice says we should. In fact when you put a 769 in diesel mode from notch 3 into 4 there seems to be a tiny pause/power drop off as you go into 4. This doesn't happen in AC mode, and if I'm not mistaken there was no field weakening on...

Not a chance for Northern. Only one link of Northern drivers at one depot, nominally 48 drivers but in reality far fewer, now sign the route through Standedge tunnel.