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Originally Posted by keith morgan
Just got back from a holiday in Austria, visiting the narrow gauge railways of the Tyrol which we really enjoyed. We also travelled on the standard main line ( Munich to Milan) i was amazed to find that our electric loco was fitted with a shackle and screw! on the draw bar, and not the safer buckeye coupler, does anyone know why they use this old fashioned haulage system? also i was amused when the driver lit up a fag in the cab, are our drivers allowed to smoke whilst driving?
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You will find that nearly (if not all) locomotive hauled passenger stock in the UK are coupled up with a "screw coupling" between the loco and stock,the stock is usually fitted throughout by buckeyes.However there are several freight trains that use an automatic coupler between the loco and vehicles.