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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 13:03 #43933
Andrew G
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At last weekends gala the Steam Railmotor returned from its home at Didcot to be paired-up and run with a Trailer for the first time in preservation. Here are a few pictures - the full set can be found at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/sets/72157633317969090/with/8676795697/

Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a shot of the Llangollen SimSig developer acting as Guard on the local service on Sunday! You can however see a few signals you may have operated virtually.







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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 14:18 #43934
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A glorious machine! Saw pictures of the power bogie in a preserved steam mag; that is a wonderful piece of compact engineering...
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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 15:37 #43935
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Just wished the trailer was ready for when I went on it on the Looe branch, was rammed solid! Agreed though, its a marvelous achievement.
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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 15:43 #43936
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an awesome peice of engineering - I'm just concerned that the signals move the wrong way! :P

is that shunt ahead signal simulated on the Llan sim?

"We don't stop camborne wednesdays"
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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 15:49 #43937
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" said:
an awesome peice of engineering - I'm just concerned that the signals move the wrong way! :P

is that shunt ahead signal simulated on the Llan sim?
No our signals bar a couple at Glyn move the right way

The shunt ahead signal will feature in the rerelease.

"Passengers for New Lane, should be seated in the rear coach of the train " - Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 17:35 #43941
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That would be an SMU by modern terms?
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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 18:24 #43943
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" said:

The shunt ahead signal will feature in the rerelease.
now if we could just work out whether you offer a train then cancel it once its withdrawn or not ;)

shunt into forward is probably authorised given theres a signal for it

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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 20:14 #43952
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Over to Andrew to give a definitive answer. Though I can't ever remember seeing 3-3-2 in the green book, perhaps 5-2, 2-5 comes into it.
"Passengers for New Lane, should be seated in the rear coach of the train " - Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 21:06 #43954
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One of:

- Blocking Back (3-3)
- Release Token (5-2)
- Shunt behind a departing train (3-3 if train out of section rec'd while shunt still in progress otherwise no bell signal)

If the Shunt Ahead signal was locked electrically then it would only be released with a Token Release or when a train was 'Going to' rather than 'Coming from'.

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Interesting visitor at Llangollen 24/04/2013 at 21:19 #43955
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" said:
Over to Andrew to give a definitive answer. Though I can't ever remember seeing 3-3-2 in the green book, perhaps 5-2, 2-5 comes into it.
Quite difficult to "Shunt into forward section" when the section is also your rear one!

Last edited: 24/04/2013 at 21:21 by Danny252
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