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| The Great Train Robbery 08/08/2013 at 19:13 #48124 | |
Steam Buff
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Hi Just to let you know that today (8th Aug 2013)is the 50th anniversary of The Great Train robbery of 1963 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23606367 Last edited: 08/08/2013 at 23:03 by Steam Buff Log in to reply |
| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 06:30 #48153 | |
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mfloyd
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Last remaining carriage at NVR, Wansford
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| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 10:55 #48160 | |
Right Away
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The Freeview channel Yesterday featured the Truth About The Great Train Robbery a couple of days ago. I didn't know the robbers had turned a signal to red using a battery. I wonder what aspect the driver would have seen before he reached the signal that had been tampered? So dangerous for the postal train and anything following I would think.
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| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 13:06 #48166 | |
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JM43
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Yep... R.I.P. Jack Mills. To think that 'Buster' Whatshisface had the nerve to sell his flowers outside Waterloo Station too! Log in to reply |
| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 13:11 #48169 | |
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Stephen Fulcher
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There should not be much risk to this kind of tampering as the control relays would have still been energised for the aspect that should have been lit, and therefore any relevant route locking would have still functioned. As the robbers covered over the green aspect and false fed a more restrictive one there was no risk from a signalling safety point of view, aside from the obvious wrong side failure of having more than one aspect lit at the same time. Log in to reply |
| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 15:59 #48176 | |
northroad
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After he had served his time why shouldn't he? Log in to reply |
| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 16:05 #48177 | |
GeoffM
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" said:I didn't know the robbers had turned a signal to red using a battery. I wonder what aspect the driver would have seen before he reached the signal that had been tampered? So dangerous for the postal train and anything following I would think.Quite possibly a green followed by a (false) red I guess. The signal would still have been lamp proved, even for the aspect it was expecting to show, so I wouldn't have thought it would affect any signals reading to it. SimSig Boss Log in to reply |
| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 16:53 #48181 | |
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Colourlight
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I always thought that The Great Train Robbery was the price of a season ticket!
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| The Great Train Robbery 09/08/2013 at 20:00 #48194 | |
Tempest Malice
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The railway magazine did a feature on the robbery this month and from reading this i would like to point out that they faked both the danger aspect at the signal the train stopped at and a caution on the signal before so a natural aspect sequence occured although on that bit of line the driver could see multiple clear signalls ahear in the distance with nothing on the line infront of him. at one of the signals the true clear aspect was covered up with a glove over the lens, and at the other signal they took the bulb out which did give a lamp failed alarm to the box.
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| The Great Train Robbery 12/08/2013 at 10:03 #48245 | |
58050
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40126 aka D326 was withdrawn on 15/02/84 & was cut up almost immeadiately by British Railways by 11/04/84 to deter souvenier hunters & or preservationists as this was the locomotive involved in the 'Great Train Robbery' at Sears Crossing, Linslade, Buckinghamshire on 08/08/63.
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| The Great Train Robbery 12/08/2013 at 16:09 #48255 | |
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tjfrancis
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one of the carriages from the great train robbery is on the Severn Valley Railway
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| The Great Train Robbery 17/08/2013 at 14:41 #48546 | |
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maxand
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Quote from a Pom: Quote: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the great train robbery. Log in to reply The following user said thank you: Late Turn |