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LWR 05/06/2014 at 10:34 #61332
BarryM
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How much are Last Wheel Replacement track circuits used on BR's network?

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Barry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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LWR 05/06/2014 at 13:52 #61344
Danny252
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I've only really heard of them being used where propelling movements are likely - usually terminal stations.
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LWR 05/06/2014 at 14:29 #61345
jc92
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Carlisle station has them, as does the lickey incline (to allow the banker to see the aspect), York used to have them before it was resignalled. Doncaster also has a few in the station area.
"We don't stop camborne wednesdays"
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LWR 05/06/2014 at 14:59 #61348
Stephen Fulcher
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Not just terminal stations - PR104 at St Austell is last wheel replaced.

They are more common than you would think.

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LWR 05/06/2014 at 21:00 #61366
benstafford
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Down fast at Purley for some reason
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LWR 05/06/2014 at 21:32 #61370
GW43125
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Also, I think down main (P2) at slough. Signal didn't return to danger until rear power car (2+8) had passed the junction.
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LWR 05/06/2014 at 23:03 #61376
GeoffM
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Loads everywhere. Shunt signals quite often, both modern and old.

Also a rash of delayed replacement controls in the late 1990s which had nothing to do with propelling and everything to do with bodging TPWS controls so occupying the first track beyond the signal and replacing it to red before the TPWS sensor on the train had gone over it, and causing a false activation would not happen.

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LWR 06/06/2014 at 06:54 #61378
Haraubrad
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Coventry had LWR when the box was open. I don't know about now.
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LWR 06/06/2014 at 10:35 #61379
mfcooper
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" said:
Also a rash of delayed replacement controls in the late 1990s which had nothing to do with propelling and everything to do with bodging TPWS controls so occupying the first track beyond the signal and replacing it to red before the TPWS sensor on the train had gone over it, and causing a false activation would not happen.
This. Lots of this. And when it goes wrong, drivers get TPWS brake activations as the signal they passed at Green changes back to Red.

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