HOW SLIP COACH OPERATION WORKED

摘要

Methods by which slip coaches were detached from their parent trains differed over the years. Herapath's Railway and Commercial Journal of December 11, 1858, described the LB&SCR procedure as follows: "It is done by having a detent at one extremity of the draw bolt chain, with a rope attached thereto, and passed to the guard at the head of the part of the train to be left. About half a mile or so before the train reaches the station at which the carriages are to be left, the guard pulls the rope, draws up the detent, and releases the carriages, which, by their impetus, run up to the station, and are there stopped by the break (sic)".