Keeping You In The Loop - 'Braking It Down - An Important Job!'
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- What’s more important than getting locomotives rolling? Being able to stop them when you need to! This week we take the opportunity to chat to our operations manager, Richard, as the team have just replaced the brake blocks on our class 47. From preventing fires to ensuring the blocks don’t shatter in service, there’s a surprising amount of science involved!
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Just stumbled on this video quite randomly- I used to live near Four Marks station and was there in 1983 as a young lad, when that part of the line re-opened for the TV cameras.
There you have it, my footage out in the flesh and been credited! Amazing stuff. My footage is the stuff of Jerry Lee on the miniature railway. Thanks Will for this!
Stirling footage and keep up the good work on the miniature railway!
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Mid Hants Railway 'The Watercress Line' LOUIS SHIERLEY You In The Loop - 'Braking It Down
Another great video, thank you. The 37 Class, the 47 Class and the 08 Class are brilliant examples of getting the design right the first time, decades later and an overhaul or two, or more, and they are still performing as they did on day one.
Awesome video, like yourself I hadn't really thought that you need to adjust the brakes every few days. Imagine if you had to do that in a car 😂😂🚗
I'd definitely crash 😂
You used to do so - I had a Land Rover with manually adjusted brakes. Any car with drum brakes will have a ratchet adjuster, either manual up until around the late 60s, or automatic after (similar to that Richard described, but using springs rather than compressed air)
Excellent Video with the Watercress Lines 47579
Love these updates. What's happening with 9F 92212?
Hi, it's currently not at the railway while it's being overhauled. I'm not sure what the plan for it is alas as it's privately owned.
Learned something new there!
Excellent as always Will. Thought: could there be notices put up 'Sponsor a brake-block here' - £XX or whatever? Anything to ease the burden!
Hi Will .
Superb & professional video you and the team make ! I share it with many people each time . Wish the other preserved railways would produce videos of the same standard ! I’m a member of the GWR as I grew up nearby , will definitely visit the Mid Hants on my next visit to the UK . Here in Western Australia we have a great heritage line called the Hotham Valley Railway & a lovely long minature line ( Castledare minature Railway) . You might like to Google them . Cheers Simon.
When I was an apprentice at derby, profiling wheels was of our jobs we hated, so much muck and nose as the tool bit cut the profile. Messy.
Excellent production
Really good....Cheers Will..
Im wondering if there would be a better material to use for the brake blocks? I know car brakes have some really high tech composites? Would they would on the locomotives there? Instead of changing blocks could it be something like an insert? So when it reaches the ware point it can be refurbished easily? I had thought on brakes design something like a multi calliper system? Or even induction brakes to reduce stopping distance with something like an abs? Though would struggle to know if that ever been done? Metal ain’t cheap? So things that can save you money got to be a bonus? I’m reminded of mag brakes on rollercoaster so must be way to retrofit something?
09:15 - Is that a crack in the brake-hanger arm? (Just right of the castellated nut)