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    62005 Testing at Carnforth

    They've primed the boiler in green though, so could go either way :)
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    62005 Testing at Carnforth

    I don't know.
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    62005 Testing at Carnforth

    Saw this at Carnforth having it's new boiler tested yesterday. With 48151 on the next track getting ready for the off
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    How many active class 47's on National network?

    There weren't many active DRS Cl 47's today, I went on 7 of them in the shed at Gresty Bridge this morning.
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    Class 158 air-con

    I worked on upgrading the air con to Liebherr units at Derby for Central Trains, also did some Scotrail at Inverness and some SWT units. That's a very informative post at the top. As for the question above, when the units are in heating mode the heat comes from the engine coolant and from...
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    Gsm-r

    The first FGW 153 was fitted and tested this week, 158's are all done, HST's are in progress. EMT completed fitting all fleets last week, apart from a few 156's that are going through the C6 at Neville Hill. Cross Country have fitted all their 170's to ready stage and are now fitting...
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    Class 70

    I've got a special interest in these as I went out to Erie to test them and train their staff on TPWS. 70003 before painting;
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    Gsm-r

    You should be getting training cascaded down to you soon. Treat the REC button as live at all times. The GSM-R headset only lights up when that cab is active. In a non-active cab, although the light on the Driver's Control Panel is off the headset is still active. If you are not sure...
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    Football Hooligans - AGAIN

    That'll be me then, thanks. :-x
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    Football Hooligans - AGAIN

    I don't think there's an answer TBH, I used to travel to away games regularly in the 70's and 80's and got caught up in a few things I'm not too proud of now. Even so, I went to an away game on the train for the first time in years with my young son and was fairly shocked and embarrassed...
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    Travel durring the Olympics

    Me too, I'm off to Crete for the two weeks of the games.
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    Gsm-r

    150's & 153's being fitted at Philips marsh, HST's getting done at Plymouth.
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    Gsm-r

    Hi all, I'm on the Network Rail GSM-r installation team. First of all there is a difference between the signallers response to the REC button (Railway Emergency Call) and the DSD alarm. Pressing the REC button will set off an Emergency call to all drivers in the area (3 cells as mentioned...
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    Is there a list of train depots anywhere?

    The railway depot book has been updated and is on sale at Amazon. I've a copy, it's been well worth the money for me as I travel round the depots all the time. http://www.amazon.co.uk/ABC-Railway-Depots-Paul-Smith/dp/0711034826/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328297943&sr=1-1
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    Class 70 arrivals or etas

    I went out to Erie to work on the first 5 loco's, I did a training course for their test engineers on TPWS. interesting time it was, I've a few photo's of them in their grey (or should that be gray) primer if anyone's interested, or if someone wants to point me to a thread where it's a little...
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