Lickey incline - A challenge !

[Minilad]

47 Nym. Post 16
Not bad though, not bad at all.
I might do some more of these from time to time

 

[Nym]

I'd just have to put up some equally impossible to work out electronics or shooting problems... heh...

Or somthing like...

A Refrigerated Merc Sprinter 411CDI is heading up the Saddleworth Westbound incline, carrying a load of 800kg on a single pallet centred over the rear axle, the vehicle is fitted with a 70mph limiter, foot hard to the floor all the way to the top, what speed is the vehicle doing 1 mile before the A629 Junction lane drop, assuming medium traffic levels and an agressive driving stance. The previous junction was passed at 117km/h (73mph) Indicated (71mph actual)

(Guess my current job )

 

[Eng274]

I'd just have to put up some equally impossible to work out electronics or shooting problems... heh...

Or somthing like...

A Refrigerated Merc Sprinter 411CDI is heading up the Saddleworth Westbound incline, carrying a load of 800kg on a single pallet centred over the rear axle, the vehicle is fitted with a 70mph limiter, foot hard to the floor all the way to the top, what speed is the vehicle doing 1 mile before the A629 Junction lane drop, assuming medium traffic levels and an agressive driving stance. The previous junction was passed at 117km/h (73mph) Indicated (71mph actual)

(Guess my current job )

Cow rustler? :P

 

[Nym]

Cow rustler? :P

I have actually changed it on my profile as well now...

 

[trainfanatic]

Thank you XC Driver for a worth while challenge. TBH, my answer was just a guess but it was obvious from the posts that nearly everybody thought the unit would struggle, so I decided that the unit was performing better than expected (has a recent service been carried out?), and opted for that speed.

Let's have more brain teasers like this, especially on a slow weekend!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I'd just have to put up some equally impossible to work out electronics or shooting problems... heh.

(Guess my current job )

Whatever does a Cheese Driver do...I have a vision of you on your horse, with a herd of Blue Stiltons, crossing the open ranges of the Cotswolds.:roll:

 

[Nym]

Whatever does a Cheese Driver do...I have a vision of you on your horse, with a herd of Blue Stiltons, crossing the open ranges of the Cotswolds.:roll:

With the danger of pushing this further off topic, I drive a refrigerated Merc 411CDI for a distribution company, that mainly does cheese... So I pick up from creameries (cheese factories) on farms all over the north.
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Cow rustler? :P

Also, how many cows do you know that can do 73mph?

 

[Hydro]

Also, how many cows do you know that can do 73mph?

<insert mother-in-law on motorway joke here>

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Well i do know for a fact that a Cross Country HST will take on the lickey in.....3 minutes and 46 seconds.

I doubt very much that a Turbostar will beat that