AP 421/422/423 sound pack - guard's whistle?

[groundhog]

Does anyone know if the AP 421/422/423 pack has a guard's whistle when closing doors, like the default DTG sounds? I didn't see it mentioned in the description or the video (as for example in the Mk1/2 pack).

[phat2003uk]

There is a bell from the guard instead as this is how these units operated.

Hope that helps!

[groundhog]

I see. Had hoped there was a whistle, too.
Thanks for the quick reply.

[rosschris10]

There is a bell from the guard instead as this is how these units operated.

Hope that helps!

i think they did have guards with whistles i have one on my 00 gauge layout with DCC sounds and it is a guard whistle

[xguerra]

A guard blowing a whistle wasn't compulsory.

If the station was sufficiently staffed then a platform attendant could give the right away.

[phat2003uk]

There is a bell from the guard instead as this is how these units operated.

Hope that helps!

i think they did have guards with whistles i have one on my 00 gauge layout with DCC sounds and it is a guard whistle

Impossible to rule out completely but standard operation was with the bells. I would suggest your model railway possibly isn't prototypical.

[rosschris10]

There is a bell from the guard instead as this is how these units operated.

Hope that helps!

i think they did have guards with whistles i have one on my 00 gauge layout with DCC sounds and it is a guard whistle

Impossible to rule out completely but standard operation was with the bells. I would suggest your model railway possibly isn't prototypical.

hmmmm I just sent the developers of the sound chip a email to ask where they got the sounds from. Also sent a email to a friend who owns a preserved thumper that's still in full working order they have contacts from all over the network will find out

Thanks for reply happy new year to you all

[rosschris10]

A guard blowing a whistle wasn't compulsory.

If the station was sufficiently staffed then a platform attendant could give the right away.

Allot has changed these days then as all guards i see on trains on all company's all blow a whistle even when platform staff are there so the rules must have changed

[Timex]

Does anyone know if the AP 421/422/423 pack has a guard's whistle when closing doors, like the default DTG sounds? I didn't see it mentioned in the description or the video (as for example in the Mk1/2 pack).

I know what you mean, It's the platform dispatcher whistling to the guard - then the guard 'sends 2' to the driver.
It's not modelled in the AP 421/422/423's
I cant think of hearing the whistle apart from the Mk1/2 pack

[groundhog]

That's what I really like about the Mk1/2 pack. I know it's a minor thing, but I guess but the child in me just loves hearing a whistle before departing the station.

[gptech]

To be pedantic (just for a change ) a whistle was, and still is, only a means of drawing the train staff's attention to the fact that something is quite likely to happen---in this case the green flag/'right away' board. Any driver who took a whistle to be the cue to move the train would soon be an ex-driver.