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Re: Railway Age from 1996—Metro-North Abandoning EMUs?? |
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Posted by Fytton on Wed Feb 13 10:10:48 2008, in response to Re: Railway Age from 1996—Metro-North Abandoning EMUs??, posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Feb 10 15:30:24 2008. 'And in 1904 England ran that locomotive how?'Steam-hauled push-and-pull trains lasted into my lifetime in the UK. When the loco was at the front, the trains was driven normally. When it was at the rear, the fireman remained on the footplate and the driver rode in a cab car at the other end, which was provided with pneumatic controls for the regulator, reverser and brake, using an airpipe running under the cars. As Wado said, there was a fairly strict limit on the number of cars - most push-and-pull trains were only two cars long. And as he rightly said, the GWR sometimes put the loco in the middle, with a cab car on either side of it. |
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