Subject:
|
Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:12:02 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
7728 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
| |
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
|
| |
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).
| |
US cars have air automatic brakes. Do GB cars?
|
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.
|
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
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
|
| (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
|
| (...) 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 (URL) this site> for more info (scroll down a bit for (...) (18 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
|
31 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
