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The Train Driver's Manual
You want to be a steam engine driver? It's not that simple - it's not just a matter of blowing the whistle, releasing the brakes and opening the regulator. Where is the whistle? Which handle operates the brakes and what is a regulator? And do you really want to be in a locomotive cab where your front will bake and your rear will freeze? Over the years, accidents have occurred on the railways and to prevent a reoccurrence, rules have been made. Do you know them? How are trains kept apart so that you don't strike the one in front, or are hit by the one in the rear? What's to stop trains on a single line colliding head-on? Colin Maggs has assembled a really fascinating collection of illustrated railwaymen's handbooks, which were required reading for a footplate man. They answer all these questions and more.
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The Train Driver's Manual
You want to be a steam engine driver? It's not that simple - it's not just a matter of blowing the whistle, releasing the brakes and opening the regulator. Where is the whistle? Which handle operates the brakes and what is a regulator? And do you really want to be in a locomotive cab where your front will bake and your rear will freeze? Over the years, accidents have occurred on the railways and to prevent a reoccurrence, rules have been made. Do you know them? How are trains kept apart so that you don't strike the one in front, or are hit by the one in the rear? What's to stop trains on a single line colliding head-on? Colin Maggs has assembled a really fascinating collection of illustrated railwaymen's handbooks, which were required reading for a footplate man. They answer all these questions and more.
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The Train Driver's Manual

The Train Driver's Manual

by Colin Maggs MBE (Editor)
The Train Driver's Manual

The Train Driver's Manual

by Colin Maggs MBE (Editor)

Overview

You want to be a steam engine driver? It's not that simple - it's not just a matter of blowing the whistle, releasing the brakes and opening the regulator. Where is the whistle? Which handle operates the brakes and what is a regulator? And do you really want to be in a locomotive cab where your front will bake and your rear will freeze? Over the years, accidents have occurred on the railways and to prevent a reoccurrence, rules have been made. Do you know them? How are trains kept apart so that you don't strike the one in front, or are hit by the one in the rear? What's to stop trains on a single line colliding head-on? Colin Maggs has assembled a really fascinating collection of illustrated railwaymen's handbooks, which were required reading for a footplate man. They answer all these questions and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781445616803
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication date: 01/15/2014
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 4.80(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Colin Maggs is one of the country's foremost transport and engineering historians and has written over one hundred books as well as innumerable magazine articles. He has also made several TV and radio appearances. In 1993 he received the MBE for services to railway history. He lives in Bath.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 What a Fireman Should Know 9

2 What a Driver Should Know 27

3 Signalling 86

4 Action to be Taken if a Train is Held on a Running Line 116

5 Detonators 137

6 Signalling During Periods of Poor Visibility 141

7 Working in Station Yards 152

8 Level Crossings 154

9 Safe Shunting 161

10 Head, Tail & Side Lamps 176

11 How to Report an Accident & Action to be Taken 180

12 Working Normal Double Line Traffic Over a Single Line 214

13 The Safe Conveyance of Explosives 246

14 A Driver & Fireman's Duties 254

15 A Guard's Duties 264

16 Brakes 270

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