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This depends on whether there is anyone else entering or leaving the carriage in question (or even anywhere along the train) who opens a set of doors first. The assumption being I imagine that people have sufficiently good close-up vision to find the door controls so long as they can see, from a...

Wow. The doors are completely invisible. Siemens have been using the same scheme in their publicity documentation (where the doors do come out a shade darker in greyscale — I know my camera over-brightens blue quite badly), but yes, the design may have been revised since that version was made...

Probably a tip of the hat to Rev W Awdry.

Eeek. What have they done? Is it just me, or does that look exceptionally drab? Livery by committee — a design that offends nobody, yet pleases nobody? I miss the NSE livery on the 365s, and to me, 377s looked their best in their bare indigo/pink paint job with the white doorway outlines...

Midland Main Line — if I understand it correctly, 125 MPH trains on a 110 MPH line. As such, I presume no 222s currently reach their maximum speed, although they would have done on the ECML when four of them belonged to Hull Trains.

Duh, why didn't I think of that. Thanks.

Does anyone know whether APT-E had C-APT, or only APT-P? i.e. which page on Wikipedia I should add this to.

Ah, if I spell it '"C-APT" advanced passenger train' instead of '"CAPT" advanced passenger train' in Google search, it actually finds that page. Lots of things are easy to find when you know the correct spelling or the correct terminology! I was thinking only the other day about this, but I...

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I just watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMSSdL2yeo I always wondered what that little square window on the APT driver's desk did -- apparently it's "CAPT", some sort of in-cab line speed indicator. (First mentioned at 3:12) Anyone know anything about this? And what happened...

Wow. That second one is humbling – shows how little I really know :) There I thought that you had to use only notches 1 and 2. From Anthony's BVE driver's guide for the Class 323 (well, it was back when I read it): "As you pass beneath the next over bridge, you should begin to decelerate...

I just meant electropneumatic braking in general, not Southern's EPB stock. I don't know what the driver in the Yahoo! Answers question was driving, although having a solenoid-driven valve held in position by power appears to be the answer. The implication here is that if you switch off the...

Apparently it depends whether you have a classic one-pipe braking system or a modern two-pipe braking system: http://www.railway-technical.com/air-brakes.shtml#Two-Pipe-Systems The two-pipe system seems to be like an air-driven version of EPB, using one pipe to supply air pressure and...

I presume you're referring to ECP or something else more sophisticated than the basic air brake, which requires full release in order to begin recharging. Sorry, I meant EPB as in the braking system, not the Southern designation. Love the MS Paint diagrams. The Wikipedia article implies...

Not with ordinary air brakes – the compressor charges up a reservoir in each vehicle via the train line (end-to-end air hose) and that limits the braking capacity. If you apply the brakes too many times, you willl run out of air. Not likely with UK passenger trains, but with a long freight train...

Yes: classic air brakes use train line pressure to signal state changes, while EPB maintains permanent main reservoir pressure and controls the brake state electrically through a group of wires. Classic air brakes detect failures through the triple valve; EPB detects loss of main reservoir...

I'm just referring to EPB in UK multiple unit stock and what would actually happen if you cut all power to the train including the battery – how does an unpowered train apply the brakes when they're electrically controlled instead of air controlled? Yes, the film was absurd – the passengers...

I (finally) saw Spiderman 2 last night, and the film depicted a runaway Chicago 'L' train (but not in Chicago) with a clueless driver who didn't know what to do after the controls were smashed up (by the bad guy) and the train decided to accelerate out of control (as they do). A UK driver...

Interesting … it didn't sound like a diesel (motors but no engine) but come to think of it, it did seem to be a strange shape. It was so yellow that at first I mistook it for a Network Rail loco, and that's what made me think 70 after I realised it was Freightliner (occasionally it would help if...

Would anyone happen to know the details of a southbound Freightliner working that would have passed through St Albans around 18:20 today? Looked to be around 20 tanks. From the distance, all the yellow around the cabs made me think of a class 70, but it looked more like a 90 – too far away...