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[email protected] · April 9th 17, 11:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
13:41:52 on Sat, 8 Apr 2017, michael adams
remarked:
My technical knowledge is limited but as I understand it anyway
this was because of wheel flats, and the problem was solved eventually
by refacing the effected wheels on lathes.

Now while on the one hand maybe, taking a belt and braces approach to
maintenance is uneconomic in today's climate, nevertheless IMO this
isn't a situation which shouldn't have been allowed to develop in the
first place.

If there's a massive leaf-fall (as happened last Autumn as a
combination of medium term weather conditions plus one of the big
storms) the only way to prevent the wheel flats would be to stop
running the trains. And passengers already get cross when trains are
scheduled to run slower in leaf-fall season.

Having got the wheel flats, they literally can't be fixed overnight.

They would have been able to deal with the wheel flats a lot quicker but for
Greater Anglia getting the portable wheel lathe before them.

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Colin Rosenstiel