Dynamic brakes only work in the engine you're driving?

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When they brought push pull operation on the WCML they disabled the rheostatic braking when propelling due to shocks it created through the train.

The smell of brake pads on the up trains at Oxenholme that had descended Grayrigg was quite something!

B

Totally Incorrect.

I have done many journeys with Classes 86, 87 & 90 in Push Mode and the Rheostatic brakes worked every time the driver applied the train brakes.
The smell of brake pads at Oxenholme and other locations would be the same after hard braking.

I'm sure if you go for a ride behind the same class 90's in the same Mk3 coaches between London & Norwich you will still get the same smell.
Unless the brake pads have been changed for one's that don't smell.

Peter

They did change the brake pad compound to reduce the smell.

I'm not making it up, it was written up in RM in 1990/1991.

B

I worked as a Guard on WCML services between 1980 & 1992 and have no recollection of of the Rheostatic brakes being isolated.
It is possible they did it as a trial but if so it was not for long. RM - Railway Magazine or Railway Modeller ?

I recently did a return trip from Liverpool St to Colchester and noticed the Rheostatic brakes were in use on the Class 90's in both directions.

Peter