G'day,
Yes, I am back again to waffle on about another Heart Beat episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-8sDcpHHs
This time, the episode that I grabbed from You Tuber by accident.
Dubbed; Playing with Trains.
Having perused the episode in full, I did enjoy it.
An infusion of The Great Train Robbery, Train Spotting, and Time Team.
The soot belcher this time is an 0-6-0 numbered 65894.
And, it appears to be slipping, so I assume climbing a hill approaching the signal.
Hereward, take a gander at how and where the villains cut the signal cable.
HMMMM.
Yeh, I am nit picking again.
HA!
But, the principle displays how a lower quad returns to Stop when interfered with or fails.
The counter balance arm having pivoted down returning the signal arm to stop.
One assuming the stick is actually returned to stop from the signal frame in this instance.
Naturally, the Yorkshire producers would not wanna pay to repair a damaged signal cable.
And, as BW states, signal cables can expand and contract due to temperature and age.
Most signal frames have a cable tensioning dingus to compensate for any sag.
And, when the villain climbs into the cab, where is the fireman ?
OK, a train crew stopped out of course at a signal must attempt to contact the pointcop.
So, I can accept that the fireman has gone hoofing to find a circuit phone.
Poor Greengrass doing all the effort digging up a Roman coin horde only to loose it to the property owner.
Kids out train spotting, something that you rarely see these days.
They would need to be night owls here.
Nothing much rattles through here during daylight, except the Rocket to Dubbo and return.
Ah, bring back them good ole days.
I am mainly thumping this to ask another question.
This time, not about the soot belcher.
The song heard after the opening, Good Day Sunshine, is that the Beatles or Tremeloes version ?
I have a sneaking suspicion that it might be The Tremeloes.
One of the reasons that I do enjoy Heart Beat, the background music.
GO the 60s when you could understand all the lyrics of a song, and tap yer feet to the beat.
Steve.