New Measurement Train

[andersley]

Thanks for the link foghut, very enlightening.

[Foghut]

No worries.

(Actually I've always fancied driving the "banana", it looks like a cool job. I applied to Serco with that in mind, but I don't have HST experience and I don't sign the WCML or the ECML, so they turned their noses up at me. )

[Shed Cat]

Originally Posted by Foghut

Fear not, it measures and records all sorts of track geometry, as well as checking the catenary structure when necessary.

And then it splashes a bit of whitewash on the track.

(interesting article. It would be great to blag a guided tour of the Banana )

[Foghut]

Originally Posted by Shed Cat

interesting article. It would be great to blag a guided tour of the Banana

Yes there's a fair old bit of kit in it. I had a good peer through the windows when the driver was changing ends at Bedford once. There were lots of 19" racks full of gear, and a fair few PC stations as well.

(Another trivia fact; there was a notice in the WONs recently advising railstaff that there is a very bright light coming from underneath the train when it's operating, and not to keep reprting it to the signaller).

Coming to think of it IIRC, Rail magazine did an article on it a while ago if anyone has kept their copy.