On 11/10/17 11:20, 'Noel Reed'noelreed10@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Could ‘MU’ operation be trialled with R or R1 trams in a museum environment by coupling the trams in the normal way and using a driver in each tram ?

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> This type of operation replicates the railway practice of having non MU compatible locos with or without a train or non MU rail motors with

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> or without trailers.

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I would not like to be the one to sign off on carrying passengers on a 'coupled R' set with out continuous automatic brakes between the cars.

While in the DMU example you cited there were two drivers, co-ordinating power the old fashioned way with 'dead reckoning and skill', they had continuous automatic brakes under control of the lead driver.

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