Recent content by Tentin Troll

Many Thanks to all. The primary assumptions of my limited knowledge seem to be well founded. I am referring to a DC area and as perfectly shown in SWT PASSENGER's post is a picture of the piece of equipment I was asking about. I had been told colloquially that it was a Spider. I accepted this...

Old Timer, you are a man who clearly knows his stuff. That is an excellent description of the spider. I guess the aluminium bar that stretches between two spiders is used to prevent the flow of any current? I may be fairly new to this but I need (for my own piece of mind) to understand why...

Good Afternoon All, I'm after a little help with trying to identify a specific piece of equipment that is used on UK rail infrastructure. I'm fairly new to the industry and work as a trackman in the South East. Recently I was out working, clearing away some redundant signalling equipment, as...