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31-05-2019, 12:49 PM
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Train turnaround

How do you turn a train around by hand? well like this

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31-05-2019, 12:53 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

Originally Posted by realspeed ->
How do you turn a train around by hand? well like this

This system is used on full sized engines as well RS!

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31-05-2019, 01:05 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

I first learned about turntables many years ago in the Thomas the Tank Engine books.


It was quite a revelation!
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31-05-2019, 01:22 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

This is Tornado on the recently restored Aberdeen turntable



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31-05-2019, 01:29 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

Originally Posted by Pyxell ->
I first learned about turntables many years ago in the Thomas the Tank Engine books.


It was quite a revelation!
Was that an encyclopeadia Pyxel?

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31-05-2019, 01:32 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

Originally Posted by Ray Cathode ->
This is Tornado on the recently restored Aberdeen turntable



The question was BY HAND! Ray.

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31-05-2019, 01:39 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

He was winding it round BY HAND!
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31-05-2019, 01:40 PM
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He was winding it round BY HAND!
Exactly!
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31-05-2019, 01:53 PM
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Re: Train turnaround

Originally Posted by Ray Cathode ->
He was winding it round BY HAND!
So sorry Ray, l have just watched the video!
It looked like great fun! so much more interesting than the
modern stuff!
My appologies once again!

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Re: Train turnaround

Bet that steam wrecked a few cameras one guy there with a camera phone got the whole steam packet
 
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