Recently while travelling with VT in a 390 on the WCML to Euston we were ready to depart from Wakefield Westgate when the Train Manager announced that the driver had advised that car B was overloaded and passengers would need to be relocated. The alternative would be a 100mph speed limit.
I was in car B. I know that I am overweight but I did not think sufficiently to unbalance a 9 car train. There were many empty seats in car B. Passengers were relocated and we moved off at normal speeds.
What monitoring detectors and/or systems are there on 390 sets to tell a driver of car loadings? The system seems to compare loadings by car and calculate a relationship between them. This seems to me to be a very sophisticated control system. To what real purpose?
I was in car B. I know that I am overweight but I did not think sufficiently to unbalance a 9 car train. There were many empty seats in car B. Passengers were relocated and we moved off at normal speeds.
What monitoring detectors and/or systems are there on 390 sets to tell a driver of car loadings? The system seems to compare loadings by car and calculate a relationship between them. This seems to me to be a very sophisticated control system. To what real purpose?