MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 01/06/16 07:07 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:07 AM Yeah they are huge and a lot of them still use the older style pneumatic only brakes which even in double deckers which are only 180m long can take over 500m time to stop a train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 01/06/16 07:08 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:08 AM Depends on the emergency Can stop quite quickly if they meet another one headed at/into them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 01/06/16 07:12 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:12 AM We are closer to 2.7kms these days. Yes we still run pneumatic brakes but we run electric over pneumatic control systems. Not a smancy as electromagnetic retarder systems but we can do cool stuff these days like brake the portion of the train that can is travelling down hill while not effecting the portion of the train that still travelling up the hills, or brake from the rear wagons progressively through to the loco to stabilise the train etc etc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 01/06/16 07:17 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:17 AM Keep that freighter stretched You guys using ecp now? All our silver sets still use electro pneumatic but the newer ones are almost entirely done via electric and with a little assistance of the pneumatics on board all controlled via a PWM signal to individual braking computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 2m 6d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 01/06/16 07:20 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:20 AM We are coming for your Job as well Matty. We are going autonomous mainline very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 01/06/16 07:23 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:23 AM Good luck haha We have at least 10years left with aged rollingstock in nsw Our new metro will be driverless which is scary for us but it's a totally desperate network which is nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stubbietubbie Filthy weeb Member 1,870 Member For: 11y 9m 14d Gender: Male Posted 01/06/16 07:37 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:37 AM Pfft, Hyperloop is the future, haven't you seen that guy talk about that stuff with the whatsits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 01/06/16 07:48 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 07:48 AM Possibly yes but a long road till it's viable Plus you a whole new form of infrastructure required plus amount of freight carried by rail is huge Does seem interesting though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kyle Get It To Wheelspin Uncontrolably Then Give It Another 5 Pounds Cruise Control 2,697 Member For: 14y 1m 8d Gender: Male Location: Work Posted 01/06/16 08:19 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 08:19 AM You been to Japan Matty? If you love your trains that is the place to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 01/06/16 08:28 AM Share Posted 01/06/16 08:28 AM Heading there in feb for some skiing and possibly some Tokyo and chill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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