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Drawing 1 This shows two wagons coupled. Provided the couplings stay in tension, the wagons stay coupled. |
Drawing 2 To uncouple, the wagons are pushed together UNTIL the hook drops. Drawing the wagons apart leaves them uncoupled. |
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Drawing 3 To couple stock together, push the wagon until the loop on the first wagon strikes the dropper on the second wagon. |
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Drawing 4 The action of the dropper being pushed causes the hook to be lifted and it is retained in that position by a small magnet and steel pin under the second wagon. |
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When choosing to uncouple a wagon within a rake of vehicles, the locomotive slowly pushes the vehicles together along the rake. As it does so, each wagon uncouples from the next but by continuing to compress the rake they recouple in turn.
To select where you wish to break the rake, watch for the hook to drop on the selected vehicle and stop the locomotive.
Reverse the loco direction and pull the vehicles apart. As the first vehicles have recoupled themselves they are still attached to the locomotive, but where the hook remains dropped, the rake of vehicles is split. |
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Drawing 5 When the wagons are drawn apart, the hook is caught by the loop in the first wagon and the wagons are coupled. Further tension causes the magnet to be pulled away from the steel pin and this allows the hook to be free to drop again when the wagons are pushed together as in drawing 2 above. |
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