Re: Viscount Linley

sweller <sweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MITRAC - it's a touch screen to control the on board systems - status,
traction control, faults etc. I keep it on "Darkscreen" out of habit.

Ta. See my post to Paul: where do I find out all this stuff?

Oh, simple really. They showed me.

A thread yesterday or the day before took me to the Concorde page, where
I learned (among other things) that a gap one foot in length appeared
behind the flight engineer's bulkhead during supersonic flight, and that
on the final flights, the engineers left their hats in there .. or that
the front windows were too hot to touch &c. It's useless crap like that
that both fascinates me and brings home to me my own ignorance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

Hence my request. For example in Paris métro stations, if you get on
the front carriage and look past the driver into the tunnel, you see red
LED counters (three, IIRC) with digits that, if you stand there long
enough and watch 'em (at off-peak times or like today when line n° 1
went tits-up at the Châtelet station), seem to follow no pattern that I
can discern. And there are a set of three LEDs in a triangle which
flash. What do they do? What are they for? All this stuff, I _want_
to know (but realise that you might not know, being a British train
driver and all that).

This .. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Métro_de_Paris#La_signalisation is
pretty good (I now know what the orange 'E' that you sometimes see at
the entrance to the stations means), but it's pretty cursory.

D.

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