The final part of the journey featured in the previous 3 videos, this time from Paddock Wood into Hither Green P.A.D. via Tonbridge, Sevenoaks and Orpington
Enjoyable video as always, especially with the commentary, but do tell ... why Redhill to Tonbridge to Hither Green? Seems very circuitous, might as well go via Bristol, Birmingham or Bedford :-))
After a couple of minutes you might call the signaller to find out why you’re being held. In this case there was a fast passenger train needing to be in front. We’d turned around at Paddock Wood faster than the scheduled allowance, so arrived at Tonbridge a few minutes early
Quick question while I enjoy this video very much. Are you driving a freight loco or a passenger service. The speed of travel suggested the former but I thought I should ask.
@@emmo999 Thanks. I should have been able to figure it out given some of the other videos in this series. Presumably, you were moving this tamper to another location where track work was needed. Cheer.s
Wow !! YOU HAVE ELECTRIC SWITCHES IN YOUR WORK YARDS ???? We must be dinosaurs over here in Canada. In most lesser yards, they would say ' GET OUT THERE AND FLIP THAT MANUAL SWITCH, SUCKER ! ' Sometimes they are lazy about the lock on the manual switch afterwards, and just leave it looking locked, but it's not. It's just a damn pad lock. The leads to many yards have electric switches controlled by CTC (Centralized Traffic Control) from some office that has no direct sight of the track; like you do over there. This gets the train quickly off of the main tracks. Once past the approach leads, most railway workers need to hit the ground and FLIP THAT SWITCH the Armstrong (manual) way. Major Sorting Yards like MacMillan (CN) Yards, or CP's Agincourt Yard use electric switch points almost everywhere due to the traffic volume, and speed needed. We are so backwards here it seems. Your embarrassed Aarre Peltomaa
No, in virtually every yard, points are operated by hand and the crew have to set the route themselves. I just edit that bit out when I need to for speed and convenience
@@emmo999 I thought that I saw a little box between the rails, but I guess that's not it. I didn't see any switch posts with levers; where did you hide them ? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tmuyykQdjwM.html At 1:09, there is a switch stand just to the left of the red shed. That is our common type out here in dinosaur land. Aarre Peltomaa
At 1m09s on my video is mainline running, that’s not sidings. So all points here are remote controlled by the signaller. The only handworked points are in Hither Green yard towards the end of the video
@@emmo999 I was referring to Hither Green maintenance of way yard, not main lines. Ok; I can see the levers now at 46:03. I guess that I need to check my eyes. As far as electric railroading, you people blow us out of the water totally; we can't match you even closely. But, with freight/goods railroading, it's the opposite. You have to have cute 20 car freight trains to negotiate all of the passenger trains, and quick scheduling, but our passenger railroading comes out of a wild west movie of the 1880's, I believe. Here's CSX and Norfolk Southern mains side by side between Buffalo, New York, and Cleveland, Ohio. It flat as a pancake along the south side of Lake Erie, and these trains race by like the Indianapolis 500 racetrack. Some freight trains can be 2 miles long ! That's the only place that we ace the Brits. I would love to come there and ride all of the electric trains; they are like big toys for big kids. I love it ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0AL7pyfno70.html Aarre Peltomaa
I don’t know, I’m afraid. I’m guessing maybe something else was shunting, maybe to/from West Yard. I’ve done exactly the same run today (unrecorded) and got turned back at Tonbridge instead. Bizarre!
@@colin8958 Possibly. Even after the Paddock Wood reverse, we still got held for 5 minutes in the up through road at Tonbridge. We can’t walk through the machines, we must have a platform to change ends. So maybe that was it?
Welcome to the world of tampers. Rock hard suspension - a necessity due to the work - means over time rattles develop. You’re free to turn the volume down!
