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December 24th Santa Special

Rasprava u 'What's Going On' pokrenuta od 99Z, 23. Prosinac 2015..

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  1. MellishR

    MellishR Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    Actually this is an instance of the classic "travelling salesman" problem, which gets impossible beyond a small number of calling points, and in this case complicated by the limited choices of available routes.
     
    MellishR, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  2. NeilL

    NeilL Well-Known Member

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    Pre Beeching routes are still available in the sky. 9 reindeer and a 9F over the S&D - dream on.
     
    NeilL, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  3. KentYeti

    KentYeti Guest

    What! Father Christmas eaten too many mince pies?
     
    KentYeti, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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    Chris_Sav se sviđa ovo.
  4. LMarsh1987

    LMarsh1987 Part of the furniture Friend

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    Apparently Rudolf has been disabled from the footplate via the TPWS !
     
    LMarsh1987, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  5. Jamessquared

    Jamessquared Nat Pres stalwart

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    That's the thing with the internet, also sorts of false rumours get a life of their own with little confirmatory evidence. The version I heard, Santa was due to stop and pick up Rudolf, but failed to react in time to his red nose and overshot by 700 yards, coming to rest across Lapland Junction...

    Tom
     
    Jamessquared, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  6. ragl

    ragl Well-Known Member

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    Oh dear, not another case of TPWS interference.........

    Cheers,

    Alan
     
    ragl, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  7. Chris_Sav

    Chris_Sav Member

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    It never reins-deer but it pours!
     
    Chris_Sav, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  8. Romsey

    Romsey Part of the furniture

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    Retired SPM
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    Sometime in the early 2000's a spoof train crew diagram was issued which as far as I can remember looked like this -
    9X00 2359 North Pole Depot to North Pole Depot
    Duty NP001 25 Dec
    Sign on : 2320 24 Dec
    Duty Length: 4h00m
    Mileage: N/A
    Traction type Reindeer. (MU control in use)
    Route pilot driver provided by Saltley
    N POLE D 23.59
    N POLE JN 00/01
    WAO
    N POLE JN 02.58 02OP59
    N POLE D 03.00
    Work as Ordered under control arrangements.
    Special Red uniform to be worn.
    Food Supplied during duty (Mince pies)
    Drugs and Alcohol regulations suspended for this duty only.

    Unfortunately it went beyond internal circulation around train planning and spread far and wide across the railway.
    The best reply was an e-mail from Southern Freight control asking for the load limits for a VSTP special from North Pole D to Sheerness (I think) for removal of many tons of reindeer poo!

    Anyway, Happy Christmas to all forum members and contributors and the occasional lurking former special traffic clerk!

    Cheers, Neil
     
    Romsey, 24. Prosinac 2015.
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  9. Steamage

    Steamage Part of the furniture

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    Forget General Relativity, Father Christmas (never "Santa", if you don't mind!) uses a limited implementation of the Infinite Improbability Drive for this job. Rather than passing through every point in the universe at the same time, he just needs to pass through those points where there's a station with a Red Nose Parcels office,as listed on that RTT timetable. I understand that he only took 8 reindeer this year, rather than the planned ten. Even with their hooves trimmed, NR objected that the middle pair of deer where likely to trip over check rails, risking derailing the sleigh.
     
    Steamage, 26. Prosinac 2015.
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