What Are The Popular Commuter Train Combo Numbers?

The total 23 + 19 = 42 has no real use.....

What are you kidding me?!!??

It's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Did you know that there are special powers working to make these combinations?

You say popular combinations?

Like Vox Populi decides what wheels they ride? Your democracy on this item is undermined. You are the victim of randomization or submitted to a very capitalistic fate of supply and demand.

What about the B series? Same story?

Popular?

What has popularity got to do with anything?

Do you actually think cars are joined according to their numbers?

Maintenance schedules and unscheduled repairs dictate the pairing. Nothing else.

Well, unless tcmtech's wife is the scheduler/dispatcher.

You can find this out with a thousand train-spotters and maybe even a spreadsheet.

Ah ... yes, 42 the ultimate answer.

The B series ... I have the Success Hill commuter train station 20m from my front door
(see website www.todsuccesshill.com) but the B series (3 cars/set) do not come my way,
except one Sunday as a test. See pic of a B series set, not at my front door.













As for the "importance" it is a great distraction for a 4 year old and a soft way
to introduce the idea of counting .... plus the driver's wave when you wave to them
... which also is a lesson in social interaction.

And yes, a spreadsheet will do it .... "the Lord helps those who help themselves".

Well, that explains it.

Chart it:

ONLINE CHARTS | create and design your own charts and ...

What are you driving at????

I guess I was just being both lazy ... and getting in first before I get asked the question by the same 4 year old ... and wondering what 'tricky' answer the question would generate from the lateral thinking engineering community that might respond. And no, there isn't a crowd of train spotters known to me in this part of the globe.

A small aside, the A series are somewhat plain in their paint job when compared to the new B series. Sets 16, 17 and 18 have an 'all white' front. It was an attempt to gee up the look at their half life refit. So with a little CorelDraw, I looked at the possibilities ... see below. I should have added some white under the hook.



L-R, original, white added to lower section, added black around the screen, more black.

Cleaning up the loose ends ...