25-04-2017, 09:50 AM
(24-04-2017, 01:35 PM)colly0410 Wrote: When I was on the London underground & southern electrics many years ago the lights would dim & brighten when accelerating as the starting resistances were switched in & out.
Most of the Underground trains I used when I was at school in the late 50s had fluorescent lighting with one incandescent light at each end of the coach. Every time the train went over a section gap, all the fluorescents went out, leaving just the battery backed incandescents alight. The fluorescents would all then strike again after the car cleared the gap.
Before it was rebuilt with flyovers and underpasses to completely segregate BR from LT tracks, the approaches to Barking station were just one large mass of surface crossings so, no sooner would all the lights come back on, they would go off again! In the dark it was like one long firework display!
