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| Filename: | DSCN2519.JPG |
| Album name: | Rob_TDCi / My Files |
| Comments: | This is one of several pictures of the fluorescent lighting on the advanced passenger train (APT). This was a British Rail project undertaken in the 1970s to develop a train that could tilt on bends, negating the need to lay straight tracks. It sadly failed in the end due to under funding, lack of political interest and poor press reports (from people who know nothing about engineering). This is one of the lights in the power where the motors and all the electrical gear is. Passengers would not have had access to this area when the train was in service. The train is now a static exhibit at Crewe heritage centre. The guy who looks after the train has powered them up from the batteries and had them working! The ballast is in a box next to the light fitting. |
| Date / Code: | 1970s |
| Country Of Origin: | United kingdon |
| Filesize: | 134 KiB |
| Date added: | Jan 05, 2020 |
| Dimensions: | 705 x 581 pixels |
| Displayed: | 119 times |
| URL: | https://allthingslighting.co.uk/atl/displayimage.php?pid=23739 |
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Interesting old fitting Rob. Looks more nautical than railway!
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The APT was reputedly making people ill IIRC! But that may jave just been a rumour that helped kill off the project?
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It was reported that the tilt made the journalists that initially rode it experience nausea, but that the large amounts of alcohol consumed the night before at a free bar courtesy of British rail was also a likely factor. They did adjust the tilt to reduce the effects. The tilting Pendolino trains that are currently in service can also make people feel queasy, on the curved sections around Glasgow. Something to do with the difference between what the eyes are seeing and the body is experiencing.
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Haha! Yes, the free bar probably had more to do with it!
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