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Hey John. As you can tell, I'm involved with music, specifically as a jazz pianist for 50-some years. But even more so, I've composed close to 700 pieces. While consisting of a number of genres, these days I mostly focus on New Jazz and Modern Chamber Music. To me, I feel there's a similarity, especially between Ambient and the Romantic Period of "Classical" music, in the fact that generally, both use music (and sounds) to convey a story and\or imagery. One of the factors I take into consideration is the time-period when they were created. While certain aspects, like psychology, are the same - technology and the amount of knowledge we have now is vastly different.
@@PlainlyDifficult Reading the remainder of the text on the screen you excerpted from the report is interesting as it discusses such a type of SCAT system, what it would entail, and potential disadvantages of attempted implementation. One of the more interesting discoveries from such reading is that these trains did not have a speedometer-drivers had to estimate their speed themselves! Ouch.
Those of us who originally come from the North West of London suffer serious nose bleeds if we head into South East London..... Anyway, this video gains a magnificent 7 on the JDG scale - nice work John, and your LT signalling background came through pretty clearly.
Wow, that rule 55 seems insanely unsafe. To proceed at a stop signal in Germany one has to have a written "command" which can be given over telephone or voice radio link.
@@galdavonalgerri2101 1953? People had TVs by then. You could have had a little black and white TV in your train cab if you really wanted. You could also dial into a telephone system using a wireless telephone connected to some kind of access point to the wired network if you really needed to. None of your assumptions there are correct!
@@galdavonalgerri2101 as mentioned , very briefly, I the video, tube tunnels had two bare wire running along them, that a train driver could chip a sort of telephone to to communicate with, I believe, the nearest signal box
@@rrai1999: Well, at least on mainline GB railways, radio came in around late 1970s-early 1980s [CSR and NRN], and if I recall right, radio for the Underground was mostly motivated by one-person operation (which of course wouldn't be for a while!) Safe to say the train in question would not have had a usable radio dedicated for railway communication purposes fitted...
I'd check easily preventable on the bingo card as well. A second porter at the next station in contact with the first. the first porter only sends the next train when the second porter informs him that the former train is passed the next station, thus ensuring the track is cleared.
You might consider a video on the disaster that the naming of the “SCAT” system is - and how it spawned the school of thought of creating the acronym BEFORE naming the system.
A certain well-known hospital system in Minnesota had the wise idea of naming the operations in the southeast part of the state "SEMN." They also once had "FAP" at the end of the acronym for the docs that get involved in suspected child abuse/neglect (since changed).
@@PlainlyDifficult If you need extra info, I can help... (I am a very amateur Beijing subway fan...) Also take that report with a grant of salt. Gov definitely understated CBTC signal not designed to consider too weak friction factor in extreme weather. (Only 1/3 deacceleration speed than what it should be)
a train collision in the Park Ave tunnel 1902 in NYC is why steam locomotives were banned in Manhattan in 1908. Also at 15:04 near the bottom of that report, it mentioned fitting speedometers. Did not all trains have speedometers?
1952, the previous year had been a bad one for accidents: Harrow & Wealdstone multiple rail crash, the Flying Enterprise off Falmouth, Chatham cadet road crash, Lynmouth flood, John Cobb on Loch Ness, DH110 at Farnborough and The London smog 1268 deaths in hospital alone. Now this year...
Best one on the Central Line was an earth auger doing it's thing quite happily on the surface, when suddenly it slowed, speeded and went twang. Down below, a tube driver spotted something coming through the roof, dived for cover and watched it carve through the roof of his cab...
I haven't ridden the central line for 20 years, but when I used it, well, my skin/clothes never got so filthy on any other line. Hoping they have all new cars now.
Feel better, Plainly! It’s a rather harsh taste, but my former landlady taught me an old folk remedy for colds, if you want to try it. It usually cuts my sick time in half. Combine one part molasses, one part apple cider vinegar, and two parts hot water, adding honey to taste if desired. Hold your nose and chug it down. ^^;;
@@johnsheppard314 Oh god, I admire your tolerance, my poor suffering tongue could NOT handle that. I already have trouble handling the hot salad dressing crap I posted. But you’re right that it’d flush your system something fierce. :0
yep, it does! friend of mine made a batch of it with red pepper when I got a horrible sore throat while visiting them. cuts the crap in your throat down very nicely. cleans out the sinuses too! and it did help, but in the end what I had was strep throat, and I ended up on antibiotics cos my body has a weakness in that regard, and can't throw it off unassisted. but the potion did get me thru the 3 days before I was home again and could see my own (reduced cost) doctor.@@stuffedninja1337
Do you know about the 2 rail accidents that occured around Croydon. The first was at south Croydon junction (24 oct 1947) and then the later one at Purley (4 March 1989) there’s a memorial for that at Purley station on platform 1 that you can see when the platform is in use or you’re staff. I learned about south Croydon briefly when I was in training and the purley one I know because of the memorial. I’d be interested in hearing you cover them as I really enjoy your videos.
I did notice the bunged-up notes in your voice, John, and I hope you get better soon. Perhaps you caught something else while you were weakened by the first cold?
The Stratford tube crash is not one I am familiar with, but the Moorgate tube crash does have at least improved things, it's only a pity that the Stratford crash, wasn't taken more seriously. May I suggest Manuka Honey pastilles for your cold, they will help you avoid a secondary throat infection and improve your throats recovery. ❤
What was the previous accident at Stratford? I didn’t know there had been more than one, and the Central Line extension hadn’t been open very long when this happened.
5 December 1946. Circumstances much the same as the 1953 accident (excessive speed following a "Stop-and-Proceed" authorization), but neither train was carrying passengers. One fatality, three serious injuries.
It seems absurd to me to say that if the automatics go out, they're just going to post a guy at each end and go "Yeh you're on your own mate" to each driver going past. If the automatic is out, shouldn't they replace the automatics with manual bocking by e.g. having a guy on each end with a phone or walkie that can verbally confirm that the track is now clear? Like guy A reports "Train entering section" and then flags down and holds any further trains until guy B reports "Train left section".
Now prominently displayed in the cab of (at least) the 95 stock is the sticker, in yellow with bold black letters 'When passing a signal at danger, expect to find a train ahead'. That is a constant reminder of what every driver is (now) taught in week one of their driving course. I always wondered what incident caused that to be added to the cab, as it seems self evident to me, and now I know. Thank you :)
Not a train driver here, but it's kinda self evident to me that a red signal indicates the need to take care, given that a red signal in layman's terms usually means stop/danger.
@@richardvoogd3012it's one of those catch 22's, generally when a signal set to danger is being passed with permission the controller granting that permission has made sure that there's no trains in the next section but people do unfortunately occasionally fuck up. So the driver is required to be on alert for something that's fairly unlikely something people again aren't great at.
Absolutely. I think the signalling related videos are some of the best ones although I'm biased also working in the industry This channel does however have the most accurate yet understandable for non expert viewers explanation of the Clapham junction disaster I have yet to find
The Granville rail disaster occurred 1977 Sydney Australia. It remains the worst rail disaster in Australian history; 83 people died and 213 were injured. These memories never leave.
I travelled to Granville boys high school across that bridge every day back then - needless to say, I happened to miss that day and therefore have never forgotten the tragedy...
My great aunt and my grandmother lived in Springwood in 1977 with my mum and uncle and my great aunt used to catch that train every day. The day before her boss had told her to start late because he had a funeral that morning and was opening late (bank teller in the CBD). Her boss' loved one's funeral stopped her being the next funeral he had to attend.
Like trains? Do next the multiple accidents in Mexico City's underground system. In the last 5 years it had multiple crashes, fires, and even elevated sections in the 12 line falling down.
My sympathies to you, John, regarding your cold. I can relate, having a sore throat cold for the last week. Losing energy even while sitting still, it is both physically and mentally draining. Wishing you a speedy recovery, since I am hoping for the same. It can be a real drag to get through, not to mention when you would like to do some real work, but your body doesn't want to do much.
I feel you both. I'm finally getting over my 2 week case of Airline Crud, that cold you get almost every time you fly home from a really great trip. I'd been visiting my sister and her family on the southwest coast of Mexico, and it was indeed a great trip. Returning to the Toronto area has been less great, and my body has been letting me know it. Being stuck in bed or on the couch, when I've wanted to be in the studio, making art from my heaps of photos, has been almost the worst part.
Colds are such a misery, especially for something common and usually causing no lasting damage. Colds have no right to be as miserable as they are!!! Hope you feel better soon!
@@jamessimms415 No fever here, but it sounds a lot like my Crud, plus sinus hell and a side of migraines. Almost over it, but still tired af, and achy.
@@jacobfreeman5444 Engineers (bureaucrats not so much - they aren't fun) dream to the chance of doing something like this. I doubt it wasn't intentional - and I loved it. :D
When I did Work Experience at Morden, I chatted to one of the Northern Line drivers about what it was like driving a train in the tunnels. In addition to nuances like having the cab light on or off, they briefly talked about what they referred to as "two greens," basically in situations where there are two green lights one above the other, they talk about the current signal and what can be expected ahead (the top aspect is the current one, while the bottom aspect applies to the subsequent signal)
We love a good geeky bit PD! Was down London the other day and thought about you and Jago whilst travelling the tube, it's great hearing your voices as you see notable things 😂
My late grandfather was a platelayer or lengthman (section hand or gandy dancer for US readers) for some fifty years on a British mainline which included a tunnel. He always said that railwaymen dreaded a collision or derailment in a tunnel more than any other accident - there was nowhere to go to escape.
I've got a reasonably comprehensive working knowledge of railway accidents, but have never heard of this incident before, so thank you very much. One obvious (latter day) question is whether Driver Beasley had a speedometer on his power car, or was he purely estimating his speed? May sound strange now, but very few, if any steam locomotives were built with speedos; were diesel and electric units the same? The real fault was that there was no positive way of communicating the passage of trains to porters giving the 'right away' at the previous station; like the early 'time interval' system, they were sending a train into a possibly blocked section, without the driver actually knowing how many obstructions might be ahead of him. Some surface lines, in this sort of emergency, employed a human 'block token', usually an inspector who would ride a train through the obstructed section and a following train could only proceed when he had walked (or ridden) back and joined its driver.
The trolly reminds me of when one rolled downhill and went onto the road. A semi truck hit it, then a cop car. The store got it back and put it next to the others.
