Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Best thing for inside and outside are half logs.

Should you not have been paying attention to your ex?

My what you lot call a grade school has a railway line a long way down a very steep drop below the school yard boundary.

We put some coins on the rails for the first time and then discovered that a whole f****ng train was stopped right where we had put the coins.

Turned out that they were just resleepering that line and the train was just offloading the new sleepers.

We shat our pants about what we had done :-(

Yes, I've seen them before.

As you can see here:

Not really. Much of the network was built well over 100 years ago. Due to the crowded nature of the UK, it would be incredibly disruptive to update the huge number of bridges and tunnels here - there are six bridges within a mile of me now, all on the same line, to connect two sides of the town. To raise some of them would require very steep approaches or demolishing a lot of buildings to allow a more gradual approach.

Unlike the US, we have mainly used bridges over the track (some under) rather than level crossings and trains run fenced off from the public, requiring more bridges, as the public cannot cross elsewhere. Which is why we have far fewer road/rail collisions than the US.

We simply have systems that have developed in different ways and ours is harder to update for bigger trains.

There is. You can find videos of trains that have been sent along the wrong route, such as this:

It is less worth it here, as the journeys are shorter and it is usually quicker to just use the roads, rather than have to tie in with a railway schedule and travel to and from a depot at each end.

I have a vague memory of hearing that.

Exact multiples of 455kHz would at most create a motor boating or undulating volume through a slowly changing demodulated DC component. I can only assume her IF was not at 455kHz?

When my father was a kid there was a trolley line that went out to an amusement park. That was a common ploy to encourage weekend ridership on the street cars. The kids would amuse themselves by greasing the rails on a slight incline. The trolleys didn't have the sand dispensers that were common on locomotives so the conductor would have to get out with a shovel.

Just put it in first gear and crank the starter. Hang on, that won't work with modern cars as you can only operate the starter in neutral.

Another time you need to start in gear is if the clutch cable breaks and you want to start and do clutchless gear changes. (MK1 Escorts were good at that.)

They should have fined you forty shillings. Taken from your pocket money.

This is why we can't have proper double decker passenger trains in the UK. There were these

What's 40 shillings worth in real money?

We were also changing the signals by shorting the links in the track with coins. That's probably what really annoyed them.

Like building Windsor Castle under the Heathrow flight path.

Some electrified lines were 6.25kV AC instead of 25kV (due to bridge clearance issues) and the trains had to switch voltage very quickly when they transitioned. I think they are all 25kV (for overhead lines) now, so they must have changed something: perhaps they lowered the tracks.

This is only going to get worse with the promotion of somatic gene splicing, where an individual with a lethal genetic defect is "corrected" with, for example, modified bone marrow. Their offspring will have the original condition.

My MG Midget lost its hydraulic clutch way up on Mount Tamalpias. I had to drive all the way home, across the Golden Gate Bridge and into the city, with no clutch. Every stop, I put it in 1st gear and started it, and hot shifted after that. My Filipino gf was impressed that I got her home alive.

Given a working clutch, one person alone could push-start a Midget or a Sprite. A couple of husky guys could pick up either end and walk it out of sand or whatever.

I drove the Midget nonstop from New Orleans to Aspen in the winter. We couldn't use the heater because it cooled off the engine too much.

They were primitive, barbaric, dangerous, leaky, unreliable, and great fun.

I expect most modern log cabins cheat that way, with insulation between.

Mine were pretty reliable, But then I spent most saturdays fixing them.

The worst drive was my Spitfire when the additional power brake unit fractured a brake pipe and I had to drive it across England with no foot brakes and people overtaking me cutting in and slamming on their brakes. All I had was the hand brake.

I had to start in gear the other year. clutch plate frozen to flywheel. once started slam on brakes and clutch.

Partly a result of having to dig tunnels through rock by hand, with only gunpowder available for blasting.