Without being an engineer, the supports look entirely believable to me Brian. Pretty amazing for guesswork.
Chris
Rockdoc2174 wrote:Start in a tunnel? We need improved occlusions, then, that will make the exhaust swirl around the engine and also sit sniffing a freshly cut onion so we're choking and have streaming eyes! That's simulating the real thing.
Have we decided whether to add the gongs and signals in the tunnels?
Keith
Rockdoc2174 wrote:I have no idea what they were like but I would guess that they were more like a fire-bell, with a bell-shaped gong and a rotating hammer whose ends did the striking. Not all of the gongs were for shunting. I read that one was in Mansfield Road tunnel to give drivers a clue about where they were. The tunnel was so often smokey that it was easy to lose your bearings and the article said that a near-accident happened before WW1 when a driver came into the station faster than he should have. He managed to stop his train before hitting the buffers in the bay but it was a close-run thing. That gong was on whenever a train approached from the north.
Keith
Chris Baker wrote:Looking at it, it says the gong on the up line was a mechanical gong, So im guessing this gong rang automatic as the train run past it to alert crews they where nearly in the Vic.
The gong on the down line says Electric gong. So this must of been the one the North box had control over to signal to trains being shunted. So that must mean that all shunting in the tunnel was handled on the down line?
I certainly would like to implement the the mechanical one running into the Vic. ive found myself a few times not knowing where i am in the tunnel and running into the Vic too fast.
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