Old T Key Help

[scotsman]

You could have told it in a more exciting way!

Is that prototype now gone forever?

I hope not! I think it's going to be at the Riverside museum...

 

[OxtedL]

Ah good. Sounds very detailed if they even put alarms in it !

 

[scotsman]

Ah good. Sounds very detailed if they even put alarms in it !

the TMS was fully operative! I could see the alarms showing up on the screen in the cab!

 

[AlexS]

Does anyone know of any other uses for the circular prong of the T-key? I have only recently learned of it's use in isolating certain things in class 380's passenger accommodation, and that is a first to my knowledge !

Adjusting the air con settings on Mk3s on the panels in the vestibule is one!

 

[bus man]

Remember that it is not only Railway staff that use these sort of keys, bus staff also use them.


In the bus industry they are sometimes called budget keys

Some staff prefer the BR MKI key as in some companies it fits several types of buses so you don't have to carry two keys just one will do.


The "Key Ring" one described above are difficult to get old of but are usefull as you dont have a big key in your pocket or on your belt:

 

[Matt Taylor]

Does anyone know of any other uses for the circular prong of the T-key? I have only recently learned of it's use in isolating certain things in class 380's passenger accommodation, and that is a first to my knowledge !

I do, but I can't put it on a public forum. It is on a 450 and is used for isolation, probably the same things as on a 380!

 

[bus man]

If anybody wants a leather holster for one we will make one for you.
http://www.yorkareagroup.co.uk/index.php?p=1_16_Sales-Items

Let me know if you do.

You dont do them to hold three keys do you ?

 

[The_Stig]

I do, but I can't put it on a public forum. It is on a 450 and is used for isolation, probably the same things as on a 380!

Then why bother saying so? other than wanting people to PM you?

 

[bus man]

Remember that it is not only Railway staff that use these sort of keys, bus staff also use them.


In the bus industry they are sometimes called budget keys

Some staff prefer the BR MKI key as in some companies it fits several types of buses so you don't have to carry two keys just one will do.


The "Key Ring" one described above are difficult to get old of but are usefull as you dont have a big key in your pocket or on your belt:

Some dealers call them musharoom keys

 

[Ploughman]

You dont do them to hold three keys do you ?

As it says on the sales page It fits 2 bunches of keys..
Mind you what constitutes a bunch I do not know.
I am still waiting for our leather worker who makes them to supply a photo.

 

[TRAINALEX100]

i work on a heritage railway as a tti and soon to be a guard but we have to get everything ourselves including t keys, i found a place in nottingham that sells them only to railway staff but if i told them i work for a heritage railway and got them to phone my railway would they issue me a t key?

 

[Intermodal]

i work on a heritage railway as a tti and soon to be a guard but we have to get everything ourselves including t keys, i found a place in nottingham that sells them only to railway staff but if i told them i work for a heritage railway and got them to phone my railway would they issue me a t key?

If you are talking about Rail-Order, then most likely yes.

 

[TRAINALEX100]

ordered on wednesday and hopefully will come soon

 

[43106]

So far, they've been called a T-Key, a Carriage Key and a Budget Key. I have heard them called a COACH key, but I can't remember if I heard in connection with the Railway or Bus & Coach industries.

 

[Intermodal]

So far, they've been called a T-Key, a Carriage Key and a Budget Key. I have heard them called a COACH key, but I can't remember if I heard in connection with the Railway or Bus & Coach industries.

Technically the correct term is a "budget lock key", the other ones exist just as slang for what they are used for, and in the case of "T key", what it looks like.