30.11.2004 / Rowlands Castle, Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta
30.11.2004 A typical British Country Station. This is on the mainline from the South Coast to London. Not many trains stop here!
Kommentit
| 14.07.2006 11:01 | Sakari Kestinen: | What are those rails in the middle, the electrification? :) | |
| 14.07.2006 11:48 | Jouni Hytönen: | Kovasti näyttävät virtakiskoilta. Jos työnnät käpäläsi sinne, niin luonnonvalinta toteutuu, ei muuta. | |
| 14.07.2006 12:00 | Tauno Hermola: | Yeah, the "third rail system", quite common in the UK, especially in southern England, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail | |
| 14.07.2006 12:14 | Tauno Hermola: | This reminds me how on some trains passangers need to take a specific car when travelling to certain stations, if you ignore the advice, like me ;), your car stops outside the platform and you have gotten a small problem... | |
| 14.07.2006 12:40 | Nick Johnson: | yes, the third rail indeed. its extremely dangerous to touch that rail and it makes life kind of interesting at crossings when you have to walk over it! actually, they do turn it off when no train is approaching, the power 'follows' the train (if you see what I mean) | |
| 14.07.2006 12:41 | Nick Johnson: | some trains are longer than the small country stations and an announcement usually says `please make sure you are in the front 4 coaches of the train if you want to get off here` etc. | |
| 14.07.2006 18:12 | Ian Oliver: | The third rail is powered at 750V DC and is *continuously* on, it does not "follow the train". At crossings there are breaks in the thrid rail so that it does not continue across the crossing. The rail is also higher than the running lines so it would be a big problem at crossings anyway. Trains stop approximately hourly in each direction (Portsmouth-London Waterloo line). As for the length of trains and platforms, now that due to the UK's "Saftey Police" (HSE authority) all trains now have selective door opening - which at least stops people getting out of the train at the wrong place but is a problem if you've got into the wrong section of the train. As far as I remember, most trains in the south east are made of 1, 2 or 3 4-coach emu units (there are some 5-car in this particular region) and most platforms are at least 8 coaches (2 units) in length (Ylläpito muokannut 29.12.09 14:00) |
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| 14.07.2006 18:32 | Tauno Hermola: | To me it happened in Camberlay, I don't think the train from Ash Vale was so long, a good-old slam-door train, I think ;) Btw, it's a nice feature of this website that long comments get duplicated! :) | |
| 14.07.2006 19:50 | Ian Oliver: | Happened to me as well :-) Must have been a while back, SWT have no slam door trains in normal operation (421 on the Lymington branch and a 423 for charters). No idea why the comments get duplicated ... |
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| 14.07.2006 19:51 | Ian Oliver: | Just a thought ... vaunut.org is turning into vaunut.org.uk :-) | |
| 14.07.2006 21:15 | Kari Kuusela: | It´s hard to belive that the gauge is only 1435 mm... It seems to be much wider. | |
| 15.07.2006 10:14 | Nick Johnson: | ooooooh. touchy. | |
| 15.07.2006 10:19 | Nick Johnson: | Actually, many trains from the South Coast are at least 8 carriages at busy times (such as commuter time early in the morning and early evening). Two flavours of trains run from London to Portsmouth - slow trains stopping at every station and fast stopping at the main stations. This cuts down the 2.5 hour trip to just 1.5 hours. | |
| 15.07.2006 18:28 | Ian Oliver: | IIRC aren't the fast trains class 444 and the slow 450s? The 444s are all 5 car units aren't they (10 car in the peaks) while the 450s are 4 car (or multiples thereof)? | |
| 15.07.2006 18:40 | [Tunnus poistettu]: | For my part, "UK speaking" guests are wellcome to join! :) BTW. See esp. Mr. Katajisto's excellent steam photos - try the "Kuvahaku" (search) feature and input "Juhani Katajisto" as "Kuvaaja". | |
| 15.07.2006 22:17 | Ian Oliver: | Thanks...there seem to be a lot of us here. Mr.Katajisto's photos are excellent - wonderful to see old Helsinki area. In the spirit of UK-Finland relations take a look at http://www.eorailway.co.uk/rolling_stock.htm |
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| 11.11.2009 20:10 | Tuukka Ryyppö: | The gauge might look wider than it is, because the trains in England don't reach as far away outside the tracks as they do on the continent or in Finland. So, the distance between the tracks is smaller than we are used to and it kind of makes the gauge look wider. |