Arriva using Kuju couplings

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 6:50 pm

An early morning service run by Arriva decoupled and split in two just north of York this morning. Are the 'real things' trying to emulate MSTS now?

John

Post by **martinhodgson** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 8:26 pm

"As real as it gets..."

megatron · Post by **megatron** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 10:19 pm

wot units were they?!

Timcourt1 · Post by **Timcourt1** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:15 pm

Nope completely wrong there, if they were going to seperate anywahere on the ECML it would have been on the crossovers at biggleswade

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:03 am

Tim, if you're heading further north, perhaps you'll have to build this in!

Nice to be able to start at King's Cross now, thanks for 'new bit'!!

John

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:46 am

STOP PRESS!

Martin Heywood was seen in one of the broken corridor connection gangways with a laptop, making appropriate changes to something called

Spring (
Break ( 1.1e8N 1.1e8N )

Mr Heywood was later overheard questioning station staff at York asking something about what tile was York on?

Timcourt1 · Post by **Timcourt1** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:28 am

Now THAT was funny!

I think he still gets flashbacks - may have been sending Al Salmon an email at the time for new paths and passing points

danielwilkieuk · Post by **danielwilkieuk** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 4:43 pm

saddletank wrote:STOP PRESS!

Martin Heywood was seen in one of the broken corridor connection gangways with a laptop, making appropriate changes to something called

Spring (
Break ( 1.1e8N 1.1e8N )

Mr Heywood was later overheard questioning station staff at York asking something about what tile was York on?

Great one.. ANy more lol?

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 7:52 pm

Mr Heywood was thrilled when the station staff at York found the tile!!!

Could the problem be something to do with York being on the edge of a tile??

Route builders please note - There is a set of completed tiles for the NER as per this sample!!!

John

crosscountry · Post by **crosscountry** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 1:45 am

talking of the biggleswade crossover... How do you go over without the coupler breaking?

What type of unit was it? 158, 156, 153's, 142, 143, 144?

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:36 am

Sorry John, your routes got the white tile syndrome. And no wonder you get judder at the tile joints, just look at all that grout!

ArrivaTrains · Post by **ArrivaTrains** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:12 pm

Im told the units split at Tollerton. Involved was a 142 and a 158. The 158 (with passengers and conductor) was left behind

The train involved was the 02:10 Newcastle - Manchester Airport.

crosscountry · Post by **crosscountry** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 8:20 pm

I used to go home on that train after a night out when I lived in Durham

We called it the vomit xpress

ThinLizzy · Post by **ThinLizzy** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 9:09 pm

thats alright, swt got word, and out done you.
some service from the west country via salisbury and basingstoke, was formed of 3 159's, the train normally runs as 9 coaches all the way, but one day this week the coupling decided it was time for a change, the bit i heard was about how the front 6 was passing through clpaham as the rear 3 was passing through wimbledon, and no split brake pipe activation!!! then we had 4 vep gapped at waterloo!

JohnKendrick · Post by **JohnKendrick** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 10:28 pm

Obviously the use Kuju couplings is getting more widespread. They can't have applied the upgrade patch yet!!

John