wasted fuel at Nottingham

It still amazes me that Emt still leave all their engines running whilst the
London trains linger in Nottingham station I know they have aircon but they
don't LET the passengers on to enjoy it !! Come on Emt sort it and lets get
back to a peaceful station

cheers

Mike

On 4 Sep, 14:46, Tony Polson <docnews2...@> wrote:
>
> I doubt it very much.  The number of amps required to start a large
> diesel engine would probably be an order of magnitude greater than
> what could be sent down the train through the ETH cables.

Assuming the circuitry would allow battery charging via those cables.
Only enough power would be needed along the ETH cables to keep the
battery topped-up on the loco that is shut down. The heavy starting
current would come from the local battery.

"Roland Perry" <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
news:RROlxkzOR8vIFAxi@perry.co.uk...
> In message <0001HW.C4E57AB501862F83F0407648@news.eclipse.co.u k>, at
> 11:44:53 on Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Stimpy <stimpy1997ukm> remarked:
>>> It still amazes me that Emt still leave all their engines running whilst
>>> the
>>> London trains linger in Nottingham station I know they have aircon but
>>> they
>>> don't LET the passengers on to enjoy it !! Come on Emt sort it and lets
>>> get
>>> back to a peaceful station
>>
>>'Back' to a peaceful station? When were engines ever switched off when
>>standing at a station?
>
> They normally switched off one of the HST power cars, but even then by the
> time you were a carriage or two away form a power car on tickover the
> noise has disappeared. Now you have to walk alongside a row of Meridian
> coaches where each one has a throbbing diesel engine underneath that
> renders conversation futile.
> --
> Roland Perry

Not to mentioned filling the air with exhause fumes the whole length of the
train. Plus get too close and you get a lung full of really hot air which I
assume is the exhaust. HST's were much more pleasent to board. No wonder
Nottingham is so noisy now as there are far fewer HST's and a lot more
Meridians!

On Sep 4, 12:19 pm, Roland Perry <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <0001HW.C4E57AB501862F83F0407...@news.eclipse.co.u k>, at
>
> >'Back' to a peaceful station?  When were engines ever switched off when
> >standing at a station?
>
> They normally switched off one of the HST power cars, but even then by
> the time you were a carriage or two away form a power car on tickover
> the noise has disappeared. Now you have to walk alongside a row of
> Meridian coaches where each one has a throbbing diesel engine underneath
> that renders conversation futile.

Another of the 'benefits' of a non-electrified DMU railway. Reading
is barely tolerable today - imagine if it were served only by 16x and
22x!