Talk:Merry-go-round train
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Does anyone know when British Rail stopped using Brake Vans with these, and later dispensed withg guards?
- As far as I'm aware the brake vans went in 1968 when the requirement to have a brake van on a fully fitted train was dropped. Guards were still in use in the late 1980s sitting in the rear cab of the locos.BaseTurnComplete (talk) 21:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
- Well stone me, if I wasn't looking through my old Motive Power Annual 1987 the other day and wondered the same thing, having found this on page 76: "A southbound MGR train, en route for Fiddlers Ferry from Lakeland Colliery, approaches Sellafield on 16 August 1985 with a Class 47 at the front and the obligatory guard's van for these trains on the rear." Goose (talk) 20:59, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
They used air-piped brake vans for many more years on Parkside - Fiddlers Ferry trains, because they reversed around one side of the triangle between Walton Old Junction and Warrington Arpley. 79.75.225.64 (talk) 21:21, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
RWM?
[edit]All the citations are given in the form "RWM 1965 Jul p388". It's far from clear to those who are casual browsers what "RWM" might be. (RWM gives a Russian shortwave radio station!) Please spell this out in full. 86.136.250.154 (talk) 15:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
RWM = Railway Magazine ! --JustinSmith (talk) 12:22, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
I tried to clarify that RWM = Railway Magazine at the bottom of the srticle, but I couldn`t work out how to do it ! ? ! --JustinSmith (talk) 12:53, 3 October 2008 (UTC)