roythebus
Pleased to say the restoration of BEA coach MLL738 is as complete as it can be, now restoring MLL721
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Post by roythebus on Oct 5, 2011 8:01:57 GMT
Going back to the BR days, I was working the W&C one day, ran into Waterloo on the arrivals side, only to notice a huge curly thinh sticking out of the tunnel roof, curling round over the running rails and going back up to the roof. Luckily this was beyond the shunt signal at the end of the platform, so I stopped at the normal place. What's more interesting was that this curly thing was getting longer. It was about 3" diameter and looked like a cable. My thoughts, high tension, traction cable, WTF??  So the service came to a halt while this was investigated. About 20 minutes later this thing retracted and disappeared back into the tunnel roof. It turned out contractors were installing cables for cable tv under the station access road; the cable passed through a metal cable tray over the track and had found a hole in the tray and gone downwards onto the track! It could only happen to me.  |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Oct 5, 2011 14:50:31 GMT
Good thing the cable didn't get electrified, otherwise lots of TV's would suddenly explode... By the way; How are TV cables ever supposed to get into a tube?
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Post by alfie on Oct 5, 2011 15:24:59 GMT
Can only imagine your face when it started going back in.. WHAT THE FUUUULAMOOJA Just happened?!
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Post by nickf on Oct 6, 2011 16:48:01 GMT
... By the way; How are TV cables ever supposed to get into a tube? They get the cables for Outside Broadcast cameras through 2 or 3 inch pipes to the roundabout outside Buckingham Palace by attaching a line to the cable and the line to a trained ferret! |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Oct 6, 2011 18:49:46 GMT
... By the way; How are TV cables ever supposed to get into a tube? They get the cables for Outside Broadcast cameras through 2 or 3 inch pipes to the roundabout outside Buckingham Palace by attaching a line to the cable and the line to a trained ferret! I don't mean that - I mean how are TV cables supposed to get into a galvanized iron tube (aka, London Underground tube) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2011 21:19:58 GMT
They get the cables for Outside Broadcast cameras through 2 or 3 inch pipes to the roundabout outside Buckingham Palace by attaching a line to the cable and the line to a trained ferret! Absolute rubbish. Any idiot knows they use tame weasels. |
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Post by nickf on Oct 7, 2011 16:08:47 GMT
They get the cables for Outside Broadcast cameras through 2 or 3 inch pipes to the roundabout outside Buckingham Palace by attaching a line to the cable and the line to a trained ferret! Absolute rubbish. Any idiot knows they use tame weasels. That' stoat ally different! |
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SE13
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Post by SE13 on Oct 8, 2011 10:12:21 GMT
In ermine ite I shall have to call the pun police....
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Post by nickf on Oct 8, 2011 17:50:56 GMT
In ermine ite I shall have to call the pun police.... I'd pre ferret if you didn't |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2011 18:06:07 GMT
I mink I'll withdraw before this gets otter hand.
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Post by nickf on Oct 8, 2011 18:09:14 GMT
That's weaselly the best thing to do.
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Post by abe on Oct 11, 2011 11:02:13 GMT
I don't mean that - I mean how are TV cables supposed to get into a galvanized iron tube (aka, London Underground tube) There are all sorts of cable ducts throughout the Underground, linking in with the tunnels. Also, the tunnel segments aren't galvanized. (Sorry - couldn't think of any more rodent jokes, despite raccoon my brains...) |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Oct 11, 2011 14:42:50 GMT
What material are the tubes then made of?
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mrfs42
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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 11, 2011 17:34:42 GMT
cast iron or concrete.
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Oct 11, 2011 18:00:06 GMT
Oh. My ability to remember stuff has been acting up again :') EDIT: oh wait, galvanic corrosion confused with cast iron... |
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