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Thanks Brillopad, wondered why emergency services were involved.

Report of incident near Truro causing delays of upto 90 mins. Any info on details?

WSP is Wheel Slide Protection. Each axle is fitted with a rotational speed sensor, often in the form of a toothed wheel passing a magnetic probe. The speed of each axle is monitored and compared with the other axles on that vehicle.Should a differential of more than around 7 per cent occur, such...

I must be unlucky, I dread travelling these days as inevitably there will be noisy headphone, drunken ones, male and increasingly more so, femail. One incident from the past particularly sticks in my memory. Travelling home down to Plymouth on a Penzance service, a group of four servicemen...

From the staff point of view, I would make the following observations; 1-first, the only good thing to come out of the whole privatisation debacle was a vast improvement in rates of pay, brought about as different companies competed for the services of a limited pool of skilled staff, while...

Back in BR days we used to have a P under the 57 end set number on Class 150s to signify the Parcels end. All BR trains were obliged to carry HM's mails so when the second generation DMUs,-150,55,56,58 and the 14xs etc. arrived minus a brake van, provision had to be made for the mails. Each set...

You'd be the accountant making the engineering decisions, then!:roll:

The air supply on the MR pipe is set at 7 bar, and apart from supplying air to the brake cylinders, may be used for air suspension, sliding doors, toilet flushing, hopper doors and so on, according to the stock in use. The compressor on the loco supplies air to the MR Pipe, and while it...

When writing or speaking, cars are a lot quicker than carriages (and less prone to spelling mistakes). I always wondered when is a wagon, (once a waggon), a truck?

As we say in the trade 'Fill to Spill':roll:

:cool:Much of the rolling stock have only one Main Res (yellow) feed pipe, adjacent to the coupler, historically locos often have many more pipes, control air, (white), Vacuum, steam heat, Brake Pipe, etc. , the MR pipe is further away from the coupler, so to ensure they can connect, there is...

Many thanks for your swift reply. Looe set going home?

Any one any idea what the "Operating Incident" at Liskeard is, as mentioned on the National rail website.

The question 'were we lied to?' As a railway man of 42 years, I was concerned enough about the effect on safety to write to my MP in the run up to privatisation in a letter with the local press. Needless to say, my concerns of profits before safety were answered with glib party statements...

A driver I knew at Old Oak used to delight in recalling his party piece when waiting for the Right Away at Reading; he would lean out of the cab and call out to waiting passengers - "which way to London?"