 Buffer Stops Anyone?
On Jul 18, 3:02 pm, Stephen Furley <fur...@mail.croydon.ac.uk> wrote:
> short, but it would only have saved a metre or so; was that enough to
> make any difference.
Yes, it is enough on some locations on SR to make a difference to an
8/10/12 car platfom served by 8/10/12 car EMU of Sub or SR type EPB/
Hap stock with intra unit chain couplings which is shorter compared to
a similar train of BR EPB/Hap stock with intra unit buckeyes. I'm not
sure this was an issue at Waterloo but it might have made the
difference in increasing a margin of error for stop marks of full
length trains.
These odd cm do make a difference. Today on the central side, 4x456 is
not allowed normally in passenger service as there are a couple of
locations where that extra inter unit couplers makes the train to
long, yet a 455+2x456 is OK. Battersea is one such station ISTR.
Pulling out the buffers at Waterloo was an immediate action following
Cannon Street, I remember them doing it.
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Nick
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