Juice off, pan down and coast through..

[mr B]

Would'nt this coasting come under the same rulling as a 'slip' coach ?

Mr B ... Coasting with Arriva !

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

That's what you get when you let councillors open their mouths!!

[StevieG]

This may sound like radical working to some. Others might say 'about time, too'.

Around 1975, we had a short holiday at Innsbruck, and one day ventured by electric loco-hauled train to Jenbach, there changing to a narrow gauge steam rack railway to climb up to see a large lake (Achensee?).

Being by then somewhat versed in BR overhead line workings and isolation procedures for work, I was somewhat taken aback by what occurred en route at Jenbach.

On alighting at Jenbach platform, I wondered why there was some loco horn soundings from the back of the train, and saw that they were emanating from some sort of small diesel shunt loco which had appeared at the rear. When departure was in order only some two or three minutes later, this shunter propelled our former train (whose loco's 'pan' was then down), out and away, without, I think, enough time to have been coupled up to it.
Much puzzled by the need for this 'assistance', a quick look around revealed why.

The overheads were obviously isolated, as new high level (above catenary) cross-track overhead cabling and equipment was being erected (with men up there actually working on it) Just to confirm this, almost immediately a non-stopping electric loco-hauled train then coasted through in the opposite direction at about 50mph with 'pan' lowered.

All quite impressive for those times, compared to UK practice, as far as greatly reducing train service disruption to almost nil was concerned.

[R. pike]

This weekend's exercise allows the up slow to be used for up trains without overhead isolation and the up fast for trains in the down direction with an isolation. I guess they must be propelling over the fast to fast crossover at Stevenage to gain the up fast for the bang road move?

[Bryan]

Did I hear that during testing of a track circuit a week or so ago. A false feed was removed turning a signal to red and stopping a train when its pant(s) were down?

[R. pike]

Something like that... What was a real blow was the following train was a Grand Central 'termite' (IC125 with buffers) and it was arranged for it to assist the 91 and mk4's through the dead section. Unfortunately it then failed stopping the whole job for. i think, 203 minutes..