5043 Earl of Mount Edgecumbe on Camden Bank 21st May 2011

5043 Earl of Mount Edgecumbe on Camden Bank 21st May 2011
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[molzips]

Great footage. Regards, John

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer well anyone who sets foot on the ballast these days has to be full orange.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel So you're the Tango man are you?

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer fairly cool I guess, but not as cool as having no seat and being at the controls of a snorting monster! lol. Good to know there is a driver out there not reading the paper, being up signals I see what most drivers get upto!

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel The only paper I read is the consist list ! AND I always have a forward facing seat, how cool is that !

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer fair enough, the only experience I've had on the train operating side is on the jacobite, and trailing a friend who is a guard on the bluebell. So you're the guy who sit's there reading the paper cancelling the AWS when required. :P

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel BINGO ! Those days of other folk doing the jobs you outline are long since gone, because since 1991 approx with the intro of DVT's and push pull trains that responsibility rests with completley the driver, the guard now merely hands over a sheet of paper with the info on it, even now on 390's the TM only closes doors to give them something to do, The driver is GOD on these trains.

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer Ahh so you're a driver, so who when you're driving a locomotive and back onto your train is with the train and tells you the tonnage, who inspects the coaches to make sure they are safe before the loco has even arrived, and who when the loco is about to be detached screws on the carriage handbrakes? I'd deffo say traditionally the guard is far more important than the driver. no offence.

[englischlokfuehrer]

@pedanticmongrel I dont what school of thought you come from or who has clearly brainwashed you into thinking that idea. Perhaps you can tell me who starts the train, who controls it when in motion, who stops it in the right place, because it is not a tin god with a Hornby R900 power controller.

[pedanticmongrel]

@englischlokfuehrer the 390's are a retarded solution to the problem of moving passengers on the WCML, reducing passenger capacity is a bad thing. Traditionally the gaurd is the most important person on a train seen as they are in charge of the train, I don't know who you'd regard as most important.