Takes me back to the "1066 Electrics" and the days when CIG stock ruled the Brighton line, and the old DEMUs across the Marshes. Happy days for me they were. Nice.
@@DonFelixGallardotrue but say a train is going at 90mph, it's only about 4 seconds after you hear a train approaching, until it reaches you, that's barely enough time to register it's coming than to take avoiding action.
@@Robdc89 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Anyone who manages to get themselves hit by a train has won a Darwin Award of some kind. Trains are very large, fairly loud metal behemoths and literally only go where the rather narrow track allows them too. It’s not hard to get out of the way
@Percy Harry Hotspur I must have been 13 or 14 when I made that comment - completely forgot about it. Regardless, I'm 3/4 the way through an integrated masters degree in electronic engineering so I may be able to provide a response to your question. The UK hopper toilet does not just pass 'solids and liquids' straight through an open hole in the floor and onto the track - so it's unlikely that a direct path would be made between the person and a live rail. Also, the metal features of the chassis and toilet fixtures will be connected to electrical earth/ground by design, and so if any arc were to pass up through a conductive stream towards the train, it would be diverted away by structure of the train.
IP Freely : Wrong. Many trains still discharge onto the tracks. Exeter St. David’s offers a good exhibition of turds, for example. Although it is true that the government promised money for retention toilets many years ago, I think they found something else to spend the money on.
@@jackrussell9094 That and it keeps the mechanical aspects of the levers gunging up and becoming stiff and awkward to work with. It's also a matter of hygiene when it comes to corroded metal as it can cause infection, not to mention the germs that would be passed from one signaller to another day after day if they weren't cleaned.
Those are detonators. It was to illustrate that detonators are explosives which are applied to the rail head near the site of an incident, exploding when the top is depressed by a wheel or some stupid sod's foot. Their main purpose is to act as an audible and sometimes visual warning of danger to the driver of the train passing over them and because of the fragments that can be produced from a detonator explosion they should be avoided.
Why would a phone not be for emergency 999 calls? Surly an emergency call should capable of being made from any phone at any time otherwise help would be delayed.
I'm assuming the way the phone is wired doesn't allow for external calls to be made, at least not directly. I think I read somewhere in the sectional appendix that calling 999 on some railway phones will still direct your call to the railway, who'll then have to place a phone call to 999 themselves and connect your call. That said, someone more informed will know the full reason, whether they're able to share it is another matter altogether...
The fire control centres won't know the locations of railway telephones, unlike BT phoneboxes. It is similar to the mobile phones and emergency calls so the Highways Agency introduced position identification signs.
it's possible that the phone doesn't even have a keypad, and it auto dials a pre-defined number when the handset is lifted (most railway phones, at least nowadays, are like this)
Well signal post telephones are only connected to the signalman, although at stations platforms have plug in telephones that can call the signal center, as well as emergency services, usually if there is an emergency either on the rail or train, drivers or railwaymen will make an emergency call to the signalman and ask them to call the emergency services.
AFAIK there have been very few trains with traction batteries? Up until now there's been the Underground battery locomotives, the 379 trial (now removed), the 230/D78 prototype and TfW units, and soon the 777s and 756s (and if you include them, the Birmingham trams)? Most of those have been only in recent times (and I don't think I've missed any - the 803s don't count as their batteries aren't used for movement?)
