On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:28:48 -0700 (PDT), RPM
wrote:

On Aug 12, 2:24*pm, MIG wrote:
On 12 Aug, 14:11, David Hansen
wrote:





On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:04:47 +0000 (UTC) someone who may be
wrote this:-

Now that the S stock trains are slowly going to be introduced into service how
will the A stock go to scrap? Its apparently 10cm wider than the maximum
network rail loading gauge (according to an article I read in Rail today) so
will they be able to move it by rail over some specially cleared routes or
will it have to go by road?

Presumably it arrived by rail, so that with a will there should be a
way of taking it away by rail. Perhaps lines have been closed since
the 1960s though.

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Where does new stock get delivered to now, anyway?

In the distant past it was always delivered to West Ruislip for
commissioning, but I've been that way a few times, and it certainly
isn't full of 2009 stock or S stock.- Hide quoted text -

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The S stock is being delivered to Neasden, by rail via Aylesbury &
Princes Risborough.

The A stock was certainly moved by rail when it was refurbished so
there must be some routes cleared for it.

IIRC it got as far as Rosyth. ITYF the practical collision risk for
any infrastructure is mainly involved with using crossovers within
platformed areas or allowing the stock to rattle around enough to
reach the sideways limits of the suspension while passing through
platforms, these being the matters addressed in the movement
instructions for CO/CP stock from Neasden to Quainton Road.