Recent content by Captain Slow

A response that seems to **** on the "I pay your wages" brigade crew's bonfire is "Well I'll come and see you when my pay is cocked up then" :lol:

I felt exactly the same whilst I was training. The DI was there as a "safety net" but he still is potentially powerless to do anything e.g. in the situation above (especially on older stock) or a wrongside door release. A split second is all it takes to make a massive and potentially huge error...

Tell a lie, I have done, once when I was a trainee (not exactly a long time ago haha!). It was a double unit and it had one set of motors out-to be fair I didn't think it was too bad-it clearly wasn't that memorable :D A 313 with a set of motors out on the other hand is painful...! The...

On a 313 or 365 if the motors are cut out in a power car (either of the driving coaches-a DMOC or DMS) it'll be eerily quiet. And slow! Obviously if the unit is running in multiple it'll have less of an impact but you can still feel it. I've not driven a 317 or 321 with a set of motors cut...

As you say, it depends on the unit. Generally in the peak periods with higher passenger loadings the motors (AC on the 365, on both DMOC's at either end of each four car set) have obviously more work to do and sometimes overload and trip out. The solution to this is to notch down to a lower...