Thread: WW 2 Trains

Originally Posted by Geedublya

I know there are a few train spotters on here.

Instead of that"tinny" whistle I expected it to have a U Boat Dive Klaxon. Dunno why I thought that would be ze case.


Yes I do. There must have been a few War Surplus ones kicking around.


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Queensland rail were still running passenger carriages made during WW1 in the eighties

Melbourne has just revived (for heritage use) a set of "Tait" carriages. Introduced in 1910, these remained in regular service until 1981.

Loco being dragged backward at 3:30 , drive wheels stationary , thats not ideal is it ?

Originally Posted by goingbush

Loco being dragged backward at 3:30 , drive wheels stationary , thats not ideal is it ?

EDIT.
I think the loco that you are referring to is the last piece of rolling stock on that train set with another on the front (LH END) & pulling, & the Driving wheels do seem to be locked & dragging, so maybe some method of braking control (ie. Parking Brake function.) near the Gantry for some unknown reason. Certainly seems a bit odd though.

Probably saves on Fuel when Double Heading.



TiC.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Melbourne has just revived (for heritage use) a set of "Tait" carriages. Introduced in 1910, these remained in regular service until 1981.

I thought they looked familiar as they are very similar to the olde electric powered coaches of the Paris Metro back in 1978. Since gone now of course, now all streamlined & Stainless Steel like everywhere else. In '78 Steel wheels with Rubber tyres made for a much quieter ride but the plain steel wheels on steel track of yester- year were just so bloody noisy, quaint? yes. also just like everywhere. The character of this part of Paris has now been removed & lost.


cest la vie.



EDIT.

A little story from the Paris Metro, recalled. Off Topic a tad.


Running late to catch the train we grabbed the last blue empty coach on the tail end of the train, WRONG!

A gang of 5 female ticket inspectors eventually came around as they do, saw our "cheap" tickets & promptly kicked us off at the next station with them also getting off. WTF! Huh?

Seems we had grabbed the last coach with it's graffiti everywhere & knifed seats & generally rough condition & it happened to be a Premiere (1st) Class coach. FFS!

Were they ex French Foreign Legion SAS dropouts? No idea.
They were all big sheilas so we didn't argue, but quietly explained the situation, as you do when cornered.. A couple of them wanted to ship us to Devils Island but there was one who was quite reasonable & younger who must have been senior in rank to the others but still spoke broken English which matched our broken French.


We got the 3rd degree on the platform while surrounded by this lot while other would be passengers stared & smiled at us knowingly.




Penalty for this "offence" was ff600 back then (about AUD140) & we could have been escorted to the local Cop Shop but on reflection today we think, that Australians may have held a bit of a special place for her family from two world wars & so she bid us g'day & we scarpered. Her father may have been an Aussie for all we knew. We didn't ponder this too long but shook hands all around & buggered off.
If we'd been Germans we may still be there.
I guess we will never know.

The old " WW1 Australien ici" thing. ???? Maybe???

(diggers to the distraught French women: 'Fini retreat madame, beaucoup Australiens ici'. ['No more retreat
madame, many Australians here'].

Arriving back to our digs we told the Owner of our experience who seemed surprised that we weren't banged up in the local Gendarmerie which was the usual procedure it seems.


I guess we wouldn't have been the first Aussies to experience this trap. Bloody 1st Class indeed It did explain why the coach was empty though. "Funny", we thought". So, no nights in the Bastille.

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1981 Archive.
Now they tell me. PARIS METRO ABOUT TO TRAVEL ALL SECOND CLASS - The New York Times