Atomic Systems

Please check this thread boys:

http://www.railchat.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=4741

I posted my reply on there - they aren't simply being withdrawn over the screens...

Hmmmm, 'cruel' and 'harsh' punishment is definately something that shouldn't be taken into consideration... That's typical Britain, lock em up and throw away the key, while the rest of us can get back to worrying about what Victoria Beckam is going to call her next dress... When the average kid of ...

Will what is new be mourned when it is old? Almost certainly. The trouble with these kind of threads is that they quickly become polarised between rose-tinted spectacle wearers, and those who insist on progress. Yes, 'old' stock can be 'nice' - but Clapham showed it is not suitable for today's main...

AlistairW wrote:What makes something a permanent speed restriction as opposed to the recommended line speed?

PSRs are usually imposed for tight bends, pointwork, structures and so forth - the restrictions through the reverse curves at Morpeth for example.

I quite agree with the varying points about the lack of a banker - when I read elsewhere that the reason given was that it would spoil photographs I was incredulous; we are running a railway here, not playing games for the crowds. At what point did asthetics come before common sense? (that' s always...

3-car 450 on the Lymington was discounted on cost reasons, and also power-demand; SWT felt it would cost too much to dedicate one state-of-the-art (sniggers) unit, to to dieselise would have been a waste of the infrastructure already extant - hence the 3-car slammers. Oh, and you wanted to know wher...

As far as I'm aware, no attempt has been made to run a 16-car Dessie although with the power capping that has been carried out there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to run as such. As to whether the TMS software can cope, we are only dealing with Windows 3.1 Fur Werkgruppen (no, really - new ...

I wouldn't worry too much about pick-up at above 100mph; shoe gear design hasn't really been studied to any great degree since the 60's so I would imagine it's technically possible to enable reliable pick up to around the 110mph mark with existing stock. Certainly BR were running REPs at 130mph duri...

HST2 coaches, built with a proper driving cab rather than fitting the driver where the toilet should have been. That would be nice!! And of course we could further apply some lessons from the current build of Arkwrights and Doodlebugs; like only putting one powered bogie per coach to keep the track ...

Right - before this gets really infantile; I was referring to the name calling and so forth going on in another forum - not this one. As to the comments made, here and elsewhere, I would observe that unless you were on the footplate or have been there and had your hands on those controls, with the a...

Fair points and well made at that.

Having read the lot - there's only one thing I would like to add: Armchair experts and hindsight are wonderful things; both utterly useless except for their uses as whipping instruments. I am not an armchair expert. I have driven full size steam at speed and had some incidents including hitting a v...

Sorry - the assumption about roads came from the fact that we've got perfectly serbiceable (if slightly gutless) third rail down that way and the logical place to deploy a beefed up diesel service would be on a non-electrified route. My fault. Would HSTs been a step forward in passenger comfort? In ...

First Class is already full and standing with FC passengers on some peak-hour trains on SWT. Also there would be revenue implications - losing FC capacity to seat more SC passengers is quite possibly revenue negative. In terms of doing it in a business sense - there will be the extra costs of maint...

Having read the lot - there's only one thing I would like to add:
Armchair experts and hindsight are wonderful things; both utterly useless except for their uses as whipping instruments.