On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:36:51 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 16:56:45 +0100, "Clive D.W. Feather"
wrote:

In article , Basil Jet
writes
I think some were also lost at Triangle sidings and Hammersmith.
I didn't realise trains were lost in the Triangle as well as ships and
planes.
They lost a Circle Line train for a week once.
They found it in Rickmansworth sidings.

I'm told that, when trains full of scrap went into scrapyards, not all
the wagons managed to come back out.

Crewe 1998 - four locomotives, 30 wagons, 9 carriages disposed of to
heritage users ?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-1187721.html

ISTR some years ago there was one case in the USA involving railway
vehicles disappearing and then reappearing elsewhere after a respray

Allegedly the La Salle & Bureau County Railroad, I'm not sure if this
case from the early 1970s refers or if it is "previous" -
https://www.ravellaw.com/opinions/ef...18170be80b5818
[Bonanno v. La Salle & Bureau County Railroad]

and someone being done in the UK after wagons disappeared in a scrap
yard.