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4464 Bittern to do 90mph on ECML - 29 June & 27 July 2013

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by buseng, Apr 24, 2013.

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  1. Spamcan81

    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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    I'm on it and I can't wait. Tickets aren't cheap and I'm closing the shop for the day but if we achieve what the tour is setting out to do, it will be worth it.
     
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  2. polmadie

    polmadie Well-Known Member

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    Were they tied to the mileposts? Must have been frustrating for you. So near yet so far.
     
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  3. RalphW

    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    But if it's dark how can they see the satellites....:p

    Taxi at the door.....
     
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  4. Spamcan81

    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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    Night vision goggles of course silly. :)
     
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    Dark - no problem. I have my night vision specs ready for Newcastle to York that will be quite an interesting journey in the dark. There will be no difficulty in knowing how fast we are going but as for where we are and spotting, for example, Danby Wiske or Sessay, that'll be another matter. So all we need on this and the London bound leg is for someone to attach a piece of GPS kit to Bittern, link it to the NR positioning system and then get it beamed to our laptops on the train so we can have real time mapping. Simples.
     
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    Steamage Part of the furniture

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    I wonder is Admin is working on it? Wouldn't put it past him... ;-)
     
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  7. RalphW

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    It has been thought of, but at the time TOCs were not to happy about that sort of info being in the public domain. OK I know we can have our GPS and map on phone, or linked to laptop and displayed on OS maps, as I have, but actually having it live on the net...................
     
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  8. ADB968008

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    what would be easy is for someone to share their "find my iPhone" app… it uses maps and moves in real time, can be viewed in a browser.
    My wife uses it to judge how long it will take me to get home :)

    very simples.
     
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    What, from the pub?!! :eek:
     
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    I turn it off (and claim I am on the underground… though thanks to Virgin Media's broadband in the tube that excuse has got limited life span :)
     
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    That's where he 'says' he's going......;)
     
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  12. KentYeti

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    So far as knowing where you are Al, use the "Veltom method".

    Record the exact speed from the GPS every 15 seconds for the whole journey. Even better if you can get a time at a milepost fairly early on.

    Then put it all on a quite simple spreadsheet and with time and speed you can work out the distance at each 15 seconds of the run. From that produce a log accurate to the nearest second, as per normal.

    Such a system is helped if you can get times at known exact distances at any point during the journey. Helps correct any small errors that creep in, especially if there are any checks and speed falls sharply.

    But you probably know this system very well anyway!
     
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    Really? Google Latitude provided this functionality for years (so long it's been retired) and what business of TOCs is it what any of is does with that info?

    Simon
     
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    I'm not making excuses but when TOCs were approached and asked out of courtesy, they were not happy with the idea. Only saying like it was at the time.
     
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    I think it comes from when some GPS devices record an occasional dodgy reading, then said person broadcasts said dodgy reading as fact, On a tour in the last few years, the GPS on my phone recorded the pair of 37's upfront at 103MPH, they woulden't do that if you pushed them off a cliff.
     
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  16. KentYeti

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    Boxes. Being pushed off a cliff?

    Christmas has come early this year.

    ;)
     
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    Boxing Day ?

    I think the live streaming shouldn't bother the toc's now... RTT as much as does the same just without a map.
     
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    is it still the same places for doing 90mph as earlier on?
    mark
     
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    Anyone noticed that another A4 is out and back at Kings X on the same day? 60009 to Lincoln out at 09:08 back 21:50.
     
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