Getting onto a Tube Cab

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:36 pm

The Tube keys have a triangle at the end?

I've had a cab ride on the Met. Is there still that nasty dip in the track on the north bound fast lines?

FuNky2k · Post by **FuNky2k** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:24 pm

The Tube keys have a triangle at the end?

Nope square.

I've had a cab ride on the Met. Is there still that nasty dip in the track on the north bound fast lines?

Where about??

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:11 pm

it was a fast service, Algate to Uxbridge, fast from Finchley Road to Harrow-on-the-Hill, somewhere between those stations.

I basically left the floor.

petermakosch · Post by **petermakosch** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 1:20 am

What is strange, is the underground Metro at Newcastle.
You're practically right next to the driver if you sit at the front.

FuNky2k · Post by **FuNky2k** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 1:20 pm

Sounds like the naughty driver wasnt doin the 50mph line limit!! through neasden platform is a little bumpy also over the points just north of neasden but no where is very bad on the NB fast.

You sit right next to the driver on tube stocks aswell, just a cab wall between us and you.

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:25 pm

FuNky2k wrote:Sounds like the naughty driver wasnt doin the 50mph line limit!! through neasden platform is a little bumpy also over the points just north of neasden but no where is very bad on the NB fast.

I heard North of Harrow-on-the-Hill on the Amersham branch, drivers do 70mph+!

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 3:59 pm

Chiltern Drivers probably do

A stock can't go faster than 60mph I don't think.

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:08 pm

southcoasttrains wrote:Chiltern Drivers probably do

A stock can't go faster than 60mph I don't think.

Their design speed is 60mph but they can go faster than that and I heard that section was a downslope.

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:10 pm

I wonder what it'll be like going on one of those going over Worting Junction and changing onto the fast lines

*Shake-rattle-roll*

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:12 pm

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thedarkness · Post by **thedarkness** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:16 pm

southcoasttrains wrote:I wonder what it'll be like going on one of those going over Worting Junction and changing onto the fast lines

*Shake-rattle-roll*

It would probably take over as it cleared the battledown fly over!

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:18 pm

wow, 70+mph

must go up to Amersham one day and back:)

FuNky2k · Post by **FuNky2k** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 6:49 pm

WHOA!!!!!!!! hold ya horses peoples!!! max speed (what we are allowed to do) is 50, any more and we are caught we are in serious trouble, you probably heard a while back on the news that Neasden depot have had major problems with A stock trucks (bogie frames) so there has been a big clampdown on driver speeds, that includes Managers with speed guns, their favorite spots are dollis hill and Amersham branch where speeds of 70+ are capable.

Harrow hill to moor park is 60mph for Chiltern trains only.

Horgy · Post by **Horgy** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 1:48 am

southcoasttrains wrote:Mind you, for the older cabs, you don't need a T key, an ice lolly stick has been used in the past.

I'll never forget those guys that Steve & the guard turfed out the back cab of that VEP as we were going to Victoria! And the dog.. LOL

Horgy

gooneebird · Post by **gooneebird** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 3:45 pm

To you folks who early on within this thread replied this enquirer by sending her/him to the blazes (ridiculing her/him), you're rude and have no class!! Why couldn't you relax? Why couldn't you have skipped replying her/his message? Man, I'm relieved none of you folks drives any metro I take (err, our four lines' worth are fully automated anyway), I imagine you are / would turn out to be pretty scary drivers.

No cheers to you creeps,
gooneebird

Cheers,
gooneebird

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