Oh dear on the ECML

[Bald Rick]

yeah, but it's all very well having super high tech centralised control of everything if everything can be stopped for hours on end by one thing going wrong. That's the problem with centralisation of everything, one thing going wrong can stop everything, and everyone has to wait hours while Rapid Response Squads scramble in a van from 150 miles away.* And it's exactly the same whether it's signalling or power supply. It's really not a great step forward.



* before anyone takes me literally and says "actually, they came from Peterborough, which is only 76 miles", I'm being Rhetorical

Centralisation of signalling control doesn't mean centralisation of response teams. Quite the opposite in fact.

What broke was 2 x fuses in the signalling power supply. This is just as likely to happen in a wayside signalbox controlling 5 miles of track as in a remote relay room controlling, err, 5 miles of track. With precisely the same effect.

 

[TGV]

So is this the folly of going electric instead of sticking to diesel? (of course assuming there were very real reasons for moving away from diesel in the first place?).

Mailman

An HST failed at Stevenage today blocking the up fast. Last week a GC 180 failed at Harringay blocking the down fast....

If only they'd used electrics eh?

 

[marks87]

An HST failed at Stevenage today blocking the up fast. Last week a GC 180 failed at Harringay blocking the down fast....

If only they'd used electrics eh?

Bring back the kettles...

 

[David]

Bring back the kettles...

Agreed! I've been told the get the temperature of the water just right for making the perfect cuppa!

 

[blacknight]

Bring back the kettles...

The said same kettles that set fire to lineside vegitation awhile back & closed ECML

 

[asylumxl]

The said same kettles that set fire to lineside vegitation awhile back & closed ECML

Electric kettle locos? Heat exchange in the boiler. Bit like a real Kettle .

 

[blacknight]

Electric kettle locos? Heat exchange in the boiler. Bit like a real Kettle .

Stranger things happen did first generation diesel locomotives not have internal kettle system for steam heating supply to coaches.

 

[davido39]

Bring back the kettles...

No that's a tactic only the police can deploy.

 

[tsr]

No that's a tactic only the police can deploy.

Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7naLLeB0A :P

 

[davido39]

HAHA yeah, I actually remember that advert, they don't make em like that anymore.