Brakes - Will My Train Run Away?

In this week’s episode we look at what would happen if your train becomes divided mid-journey. Will it runaway?
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[@switches_slips_turnouts]

what a narration! thinking of recreating this on my layout

[@patrickbell1910]

Please, please, could we nail this 'fly shunting' thing. What is described is 'loose shunting' which is no longer allowed in UK (but normal in USA, Germany, etc.) (I used to do it in Woking Yard.) For information, 'fly shunting' was a practice of unhooking the engine on the move, running it forward quickly into a siding and throwing the points before the coasting wagons run over them. before passenger trains had to have automatic brakes it was the practice at e.g. Nine Elms Terminus on the L&SW.

[@harrisongrant8558]

I've heard this practice referred to as "kicking cars" in American terminology, but it was most prevalent in the 1930s and 1940s, when hump yards were not as common and railroads still had dedicated switching (shunting) locomotives.

[@dariusneal9495]

This is incredible! Wathcing the Water Cress Line is what I look forward to each week. I've learned so much more from these videos in the last few months than trying to contact people in the industry for years.

[@battlebat8087]

Love how you changed the tone.

[@declanjoyce8640]

Really good...thank you..

[@D8059PRODUCTIONS]

6:01 lol will is like meh anyways great vid!

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Technically a vacuum is any pressure below the standard 14.8psi.

[@Schools925Cheltenham]

Did the guard onboard the break van survive?

[@benters3509]

The one thing that I always have trouble with. How do you move a “dead” locomotive. I see people doing it all the time. If there is no vacuum being generated, the brakes will be on. But they roll them around with no problem. Can you do a little addendum or something. Thanks.

[@WillStratford]

Hi there, when disposing the locomotive will be secured with its handbrake and the vacuum destroyed. That way when you need to move it all you have to do is take the handbrake off.

[@uries15]

I really enjoyed this. Just one question though: who is it aimed at? I ask only because there's a lot of jargon in it. Even the phrase "becomes divided" is a bit railway rule book.

[@srfurley]

I know how vacuum brakes work, but if I didn’t I think I might have had difficulty understanding this. What is inside the vacuum cylinder? Where is the ‘reservoir’? What exactly are the various gauges and cocks connected to? An explanation of the system using clear diagrams, such as those used in the BR book Diesel Traction a manual for enginemen, before showing the actual equipment would help. I’m not sure if these drawings are out of copyright now, but it would probably be possible to get permission to use them.

[@SteveMrW]

Very interesting and informative, but please loose the distracting and annoying music.

[@jackx4311]

YES!! Well said, Mr W! I have no idea why so many video makers seem *compelled* to add in the kind of junk music you hear when you phone a 'help desk' - especially if your hearing is not the best, it makes the message needlessly difficult to follow.

[@larrylawson5172]

This isn't the worst but still covering the narration. This makes it more difficult for those of us with hearing impairment. The narration is interesting enough to not need music. I know that the music is to cover background noise (white noise or the pings, pops, bangs of being in a shop) in recordings. By the way, it would be nice to have contrasted vacuum brakes and air brakes. Why did BR switch?

[@srfurley]

@@jackx4311 Music on hold can actually be useful, if you are being held for a long time you can at least tell that the call hasn’t dropped. It’s sometimes reasonable to have music and dialogue at the same time in a feature film, where the music is part of the action, if a band is playing on stage and one of the audience shouts out to them that they are rubbish for example, but in a documentary film it is nearly always better to fade out any music when a narrator is speaking, or the subject of the film is making its own sounds. In this case at least the music was quiet, I thought at first that it wasn’t from this film but from something that I had left running in the background.

[@RAMGYTT]

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