Recent content by Trog

I have known it to be done that way, sounds like machine gun fire if you are getting rid of a few hundred.

I seem to remember that there were still some Midland Railway chairs down towards the buffer end of that siding.

Some years ago I did some diagrams for a proposed connection between the GWR and LNWR mainlines at Old Oak Common / Willesden No7 junction. I think the idea was to divert some of the WCML local trains on to the Elisabeth Line and into Paddington. I marked the two lines up as being the Up and Dn...

I think the problem here is that each pre-grouping company and its constituents had their own convention, or in some cases probably just stuck up numbers starting from where they were standing when some one asked what the platform numbers should be. So older stations on the same line may be...

Probably towards the dodgy end of old time P-Way work, but safe enough if you were wearing the proper 1000 volt gauntlets, and kneeling on a rubber mat. Doing that saved electricity by helping to reduce leakage through the film of dirt and brake dust that builds up on the surface of the pots...

Don't worry about it treat it with a degree of respect, being careful with metallic tools and not touching the con-rail and any earthed object at the same time with your bare skin and you will be fine. Follow the basic safety rules about how to step over the live rail so you do not fall on to...

I thought that was the problem with wiring down Acton Bank to the Penzance branch.

Have long thought that the best thing about both of them is the Up Stour.

My experience is that the local postie seems to only be coming round every other day or so anyway. He generally parks across the end of my drive so I get to see him even if he is not delivering to me. If it had not been for the publicity etc I probably would not have even noticed that there...

An idea that worked really well in Czechoslovakia so why not try it again. Could well ensure peace in our time.

Years ago I found a length of CWR lying in the six foot that had moved so that the end of it was taking the hot shoes off passing DC equipped units. As this was an AC line this was having no immediate effect. So as a responsible member of the P-Way I phoned up the relaying office straight away...

A Supervisor I worked with years ago needed to move a pair of 600' rails a couple of miles. So he borrowed one of the cables used to pull rails off the back of the old single bolster CWR trains. Fitted the shackles to the holes blown in the rail ends, looped the cable over the draw hook of a...

Using strong fishing line or piano wire is more accurate, mark up a series of points evenly spaced around the curve, and run the wire between two of the points that are one apart. The wire between the points forms a chord the points are usually referred to as half chord points, measure at 90'...

Has been dodgy for years the stairs down to the US platform from the footbridge collapsed in BR days under the weight of the morning rush. Which should give you an idea of how rotten they were.

Odd as the BR Perch CWR trains were designed to be able to lift rail with the idea of taking it away for use as serviceable on quieter lines. The trouble was that there were not enough of them and they were usually fully employed delivering new rail. CWR old or new bends so much that you would...