teuchter
je suis teuchter
I don't think you belong on this thread, really.
On the other hand though, they do massively better than us in terms of transporting freight by rail instead of road.
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I don't think you belong on this thread, really.
On the other hand though, they do massively better than us in terms of transporting freight by rail instead of road.
davesgcr
Reading books
Its possible to couple 2 Pendolnos together and work them as a single unit - thats 22 carriages ...
During the heroic days of WW2 - long distance trains from Kings Cross were up to 20 carriages long , with the engine sitting in Gasworks tunnel before departure - an old boy I knew acted as fireman on this sort of train at the age of 18 and commented that he never looked up all the way from London to Leeds as he was permenantly shovelling wartime coal (dust , briquettes and the odd lump) into the firebox. Thin as a whippet and used to fall of the loco at Leeds with sheer exhaustion.
"Tornado" would do it all right
Longest freight trains in the UK are 775 metres - though the Germans have run 1000 + metre trains regulalry Denmark to Hamburg , but tis pretty flat there. The key issue is having stations and yards big enough to handle these things.....
Just goes to show how efficient steel wheels / steel rails can be !
During the heroic days of WW2 - long distance trains from Kings Cross were up to 20 carriages long , with the engine sitting in Gasworks tunnel before departure - an old boy I knew acted as fireman on this sort of train at the age of 18 and commented that he never looked up all the way from London to Leeds as he was permenantly shovelling wartime coal (dust , briquettes and the odd lump) into the firebox. Thin as a whippet and used to fall of the loco at Leeds with sheer exhaustion.
"Tornado" would do it all right
Longest freight trains in the UK are 775 metres - though the Germans have run 1000 + metre trains regulalry Denmark to Hamburg , but tis pretty flat there. The key issue is having stations and yards big enough to handle these things.....
Just goes to show how efficient steel wheels / steel rails can be !
Yabbut, you still need enough sidings in the yard.
And there's a linear optimisation problem to be done to work out whether the time to do all that shunting outweighs any cost advantages from using fewer drivers.
It's graph time
teuchter
je suis teuchter
That all takes time though and you also have to think about the length of passing loops.
I wonder how they unload it at the other end. They must split it up into separate trains and get in some drivers to pull all the trains into different tracks at the unloading site. Or perhaps they are driven to different destinations after a certain point on their journey. As it is iron ore I suppose they are going to steelworks.
The second train seemed to be cars from what I could gather so they would be separated out to go to different towns I guess.
Journeys don't just have a middle there is also a beginning and an end. As Confucious probably said.
Have a gratuitous model railway picture:-
The second train seemed to be cars from what I could gather so they would be separated out to go to different towns I guess.
Journeys don't just have a middle there is also a beginning and an end. As Confucious probably said.
Have a gratuitous model railway picture:-
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
When they ran double length coal trains between west and east coast ml's , they could only do Carlisle to Tees Yard due to stabling problems iirc
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