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Post by q8 on Aug 16, 2005 18:09:33 GMT
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Colin
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Post by Colin on Aug 17, 2005 1:57:17 GMT
So all cars were motored on R stock. No wonder they were better at accelerating !! ;D ;D
Quite a comparison in weight too, compared with their replacements!
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Post by q8 on Aug 17, 2005 3:57:31 GMT
So all cars were motored on R stock. No wonder they were better at accelerating !! ;D ;D -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yup. Off to top notch in 10 seconds (RPA) 110 HP motors outer axles of asymmetric bogies. Two brake blocks per wheel deceleration ration almost as fast as acceleration. An 8 car train could stop in it's own length from 40 mph (If the retarders were not set too low that is)
The instruction for braking was to shut off at the last home signal apply full brake at the ramp and ease off as needed until stopped. Usually though you'd have to give a full release a couple of times otherwise you'd pull up short of the car mark. (That by the way applied to ALL stocks. The "Q's" had an even better brake.)
Also you could zip round corners too. For instance you could (though not all drivers did) wind right up at Whitechapel eastbound and keep the handle round until Stepney Green homes by which time you were doing near on 50mph. The train would go round the corner entering the tunnel still accelerating and the back end would whip round fierce. Seen many folk fall over when caught out by that.
You could do the same westbound too at St Mary's junction. We had one driver (who's still alive so no names) who went down there full parallel every time.
Another place you could hit very fast (signals permitting) was Gloucester Road eastbound. NONE of the drivers would slow down over the diamond crossing there and so they had to change it every six months. Also they had scores of complaints from residents about noise of trains banging over it. Drivers disliked that spot intensly because if you were seen to be going a bit slowly on the diagram, Earl's Court would either sling a Circle in front of you or cross one for High Street. If that happened we would get furious and dawdle along at about 20 mph. So by the time you reached Embankment you were 6 or 7 minutes down.
So they would rather you belted round the corner and kept time than slow you down and take the consequences. Believe you me not liking Circles is nothing new. In my time they were positively HATED. If he put a Circle across you both ways at Gloucester Road he regretted it afterwards 'cos you'd drop 20 minutes between there and Mansion House. "Passenger Traffic Guv'nor. Sorry"
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Post by q8 on Aug 17, 2005 4:06:23 GMT
Quite a comparison in weight too, compared with their replacements! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You should have seen the old "F" stock matey. 44 ton for a motor and 37 ton for a trailer. They wasn't called "Tanks" for nothing you know
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