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Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:24:05 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mathew Clayson wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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Until the mid-to-late 50s the headlamps formed a code to denote the type of
train. There were four positions, centre, left and right along the footplate
and top of the smokebox door. See this site for more info (scroll down a bit for the codes. The different
railway companies had their own variations on the codes. Many of the first
generation of diesel locos had discs on the fronts, replicating the headlamp
positions. These discs folded in half, covering their lamp and their white
face. See here for some
examples
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Every train has to carry a red tail light. On unit trains and locomotives
this is built in, on freight and hauled passenger stock it is a separate
lamp fitted onto a lamp iron (a bracket) From the mid Nineties these have
changed to flashing units, presumably the advent of LEDs has allowed this to
provide greater battery life (not called FREDs here AFAIK).
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US cars have air automatic brakes. Do GB cars?
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All passenger stock has had continuous brakes for at least 100 years (IIRC).
However this was mainly vacuum rather than air brakes, The last thirty years
has seen a move over to air and now all stock is air braked (I think) Until
the Sixties almost all freight stock was unfitted (i.e. handbrakes only),
the exceptions were those used in passenger and express freight trains (fish
trains being an example) Those vehicles which had continuous brakes were
vacuum braked. Again from the Seventies there was a move to get rid of
unfitted trains (they had lower speed limits and required the use of a brake
van (similar idea to a caboose) Most of the unfitted vehicles have now been
scrapped due to changes in traffic patterns, some were vacuum or air braked.
Again AFAIK all freight stock is now air braked.
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Tim,
that was extremely useful, thank you. I’m assuming that Thomas with two
coaches would be a B class, same for Toby with his coach and baggag car. Is
the red end of train light mounted high or low?
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I would have thought so, although as I said it varied slightly from railway to
railway so I wouldn’t worry about it too much. The red light on the end is
normally mounted just above one of the buffers, i.e. low down to one side.
Tim
PS I was very wordy in my last post and still missed out the whole point of the
guard! The guards van contains a control point for the train brakes, the same
for a brake van in a fitted freight train, in an unfitted freight train the
brake van provided additional (hand) braking power to the loco.
Tim
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| (...) In the illustrations from the original Awdry books, Thomas has his front lamp on top of the smokebox when pulling a passenger train such as Annie and Clarabel. This indicates a stopping passenger train, class 2. Gordon, on the other hand, has (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) snipped (...) Tim, that was extremely useful, thank you. I'm assuming that Thomas with two coaches would be a B class, same for Toby with his coach and baggag car. Is the red end of train light mounted high or low? Mat (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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