Always take care when coupling Wessex Trains units as the vinyl is structural and cannot handle large forces. Vinyl should not be used to remedy rust! As for why we use full autocouplers, basically it means that no-one normally has to go out of the train and on to the track to couple units together. A good few rail operators in the UK rely on regularly splitting and joining trains to make the timetable work and as such being able to quickly couple/uncouple without any extra staff is essential. More modern units use superior Schafenberg couplers (usually Dellner brand) and couple even more easily (unless made by Alstom!), and trains like the Siemens Desiros don't even require a couple button to be pressed, automatically closing down the cab and making all connections the moment contact is made. On our local main line to London we can only usually have 5 carriages on our bit as there is not the electrical capacity for more (it was electrified on the cheap), but later on 5 carriages would be insufficient, so we usually get 1 5 car unit as far as Bournemouth (where the power restriction is no longer in force) and then at Bournemouth another unit attaches, all within about 30 seconds.
AFAIK the power restrictions start just west of Poole. The Poole stoppers can sometimes be a pair of 450s. Think I've also occasionally seen a pair of 444s in Poole
did any of you think 2:21 snoooot thuuooo, hes going to hock a lugie, you know the position right before you spit mucus out on something down below. heh. that is what I thought
To straight forward, simple, safe, and of greatest importance to Europeans to sensible Along with being what the US uses. When in \our lifetimes have Europeans done anything that was well and sensibly thought through?
AAR type coupler is not suitable for passenger trains because of the slack. A complex electrical system connection is required because there's a cab in each wagon. Anyway, this coupler is extremely rare in Europe where we use the chain and buffer system.
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Always take care when coupling Wessex Trains units as the vinyl is structural and cannot handle large forces. Vinyl should not be used to remedy rust!
As for why we use full autocouplers, basically it means that no-one normally has to go out of the train and on to the track to couple units together. A good few rail operators in the UK rely on regularly splitting and joining trains to make the timetable work and as such being able to quickly couple/uncouple without any extra staff is essential. More modern units use superior Schafenberg couplers (usually Dellner brand) and couple even more easily (unless made by Alstom!), and trains like the Siemens Desiros don't even require a couple button to be pressed, automatically closing down the cab and making all connections the moment contact is made.
On our local main line to London we can only usually have 5 carriages on our bit as there is not the electrical capacity for more (it was electrified on the cheap), but later on 5 carriages would be insufficient, so we usually get 1 5 car unit as far as Bournemouth (where the power restriction is no longer in force) and then at Bournemouth another unit attaches, all within about 30 seconds.
AFAIK the power restrictions start just west of Poole. The Poole stoppers can sometimes be a pair of 450s. Think I've also occasionally seen a pair of 444s in Poole
YAAAAY it is 3am and i have a test tomorrow!
same. and I'm not even interested in trains
Julian Amrine neither am i
Cool, but I think the trains over here would have buggered off long time ago.
Trying these coupling modal train
Class 153 was 200 years old
Hhb
did any of you think 2:21 snoooot thuuooo, hes going to hock a lugie, you know the position right before you spit mucus out on something down below. heh.
that is what I thought
I don't like palm couplings
Go back to what worked for 200 years, why change everything, and complicate the hell out of everything.
Two words knuckle couplers
Quick easy and far more secure, Europeans seem to look for the most difficult way to do the simplest of things
yeah lol
they want to have couplers like american couplers why cant they just use our style
To straight forward, simple, safe, and of greatest importance to Europeans to sensible Along with being what the US uses. When in \our lifetimes have Europeans done anything that was well and sensibly thought through?
AAR type coupler is not suitable for passenger trains because of the slack. A complex electrical system connection is required because there's a cab in each wagon. Anyway, this coupler is extremely rare in Europe where we use the chain and buffer system.