Train stops.

[keenasmustard]

This is my first ever thread on this forum so forgive me if this question has ever come up. Someone told me there was different types of train stops can anyone enlighten me in to what they are called?

[Tom]

There are indeed; historically there were several different designs where the mechanism was totally exposed to the elements and we colloquially known as 'Long Toms'; different variants existed for the Central London Railway, London Electric Railway, and I think one other.

These were later redesigned into an enclosed case, iitially manually lubricated (HO and HT for outside and tube tunnel use respectively), then a self-lubricating variety was developed (J for outside, K for tunnels). Both the J and K came in different variants, the J with an insulated lid for use at Tower Hill (where the power supply arrangements are different), with an extended trainstop arm, and for use in the tube tunnel on the Heathrow loop, the K with variants for use on the central line and with flat bottom rails.

A number of HO(?) trainstops were also converted for use on the Jubilee Line extension, where they had a plug coupler connection for the wiring rather than the traditional rubbed cable.

So the number of variants are 9:
HO
HT
J
J (Extended Arm)
J (Tower Hill)
J (Heathrow)
K
KF
KC

[Deleted]

Oh yes I remember converting a lorry load of HO’s for the JLE in Stratford Market Depot back in 1999.

The Tower Hill variant is more then just a different lid but sadly we lost those a few weeks ago with CBTC.

Don’t forget there is one more, Fixed Trainstops used for sidings, terminal stations, depots

[principlesdesigner]

And of course the emergency trainstop

[brigham]

And the Glasgow pattern...

[nig]

And there is also some manual operated ones on the tracks between Acton and south Ealing that can be used when tracks are used for testing purposes

[Tom]

Apr 16, 2021 15:48:40 GMT principlesdesigner said:

And of course the emergency trainstop

That too had two variants (Bullhead and Flat Bottom), and it's just been redesigned with detection of the head; so another two variants.

Apr 18, 2021 12:48:48 GMT nig said:

And there is also some manual operated ones on the tracks between Acton and south Ealing that can be used when tracks are used for testing purposes

That's just a standard HO trainstop with no air connections which is pegged down.

There are, however, a few hand-worked ones for the occasional wrong direction move installed on the network, though they are now few and far between.

[roythebus]

There's also the "foreign object" that has fallen on the track variant. Us your imagination what they could be. some quite grisly, others can be amusing.