Atomic Systems

I won't go into details about emails between me and Mr Staverly, but i would be interested to know how many people who use this site, are members of the southern electric group. If you're brave enough to answer the first question, then please consider this second question. Are you an active voluntee...

No mate. You have played right into the hands of South Eastern trains by believeing, and passing on, their excuse. It was actually due to their new plastic trains refusing to work in the snow. If you don't believe me then try this line of thinking. All of South Eastern trains 411 fleet are based at ...

The driver trainer's are under the impression notch 1 is bad. If you're picking up speed, and all you're motors are working, then you can use notch 1 for as long as you like, because the build up of back EMF will reduce the ampage being drawn, and so reduce the work of the resistors. Several times w...

Numnutz. Any snow that makes it through the air filter {presuming the MB 2 put one in} of the traction motor, is bad snow :lol: Seriously though, the 375's have dropped like flies today, the older stock will suffer different problems. Snow isn't the problem, its the driver's skill. De Icers are actu...

I've tried sigcent. never committed enough time to mastering it though
Simsig and Pcrail are my favourites.

Congratulations to The Daily Mail, for only just reporting this story. Of course they added their version of events, where the guard heroically jumps between the increasing gap in the coaches, to apply the emergency brakes to the front section of train, which will slow down the rear section. Hm, whe...

"How are we going to explain this one to the hire company..."

Mike - 544.7m - imagine its Matt Le Tisser

Ban smoking on anything thats plastic and full of diesel

Dave Babb's first answer creased me up the most.

*points to his question hoping the almighty Going North will answer it *

The worst thing you can do, is stand with you're back to a 375 or 377, wearing an HV jacket, i got 'blown up' the other day, my body rumbled!!!

Peter, with regards to you're pass comm question. Most new trains now have a facility to over ride the pass comm application for 60 seconds, so the driver can bring the train to a stand in a more convenient location. You can keep resetting the 60 over ride as much as you like, but you still have to ...

Going back to axle counters, wasn't a malfunctioning axle counter partly to blame for the Severn tunnel crash a few years ago?

442's aren't buckeye, their tight lock. You need a mushroom pin if you want to rescue them using a buckeye unit, so its easier and safer to drop the buckeye and use the screw coupling.