James Heaton wrote:

"Anna Noyd-Dryver" wrote in message
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MB wrote:
On 11/04/2021 11:56, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
Hummer have already built 2 large battery SUVs. And H2 trains makes no
bloody sense whatsoever - just electric the damn lines and if its too
expensive for overhead then they should recind that moronic rule about
no more 3rd rail and lay that instead.


Health and Safety at Work Act, isn't it?


I would not have expected the H&S at Work Act to go into detail like
that.


About having exposed electro conductors at floor level?

Apparently it's something specific in electrical regulations too.

Either way, the point is that it's about staff safety not about
trespassers, as often claimed.

Electricity at Work Regulations 1989

It is mainly focused on staff safety.

Realistically the only way we're ever going to get more 3rd rail, is with
fully protected contact like the DLR - which is incompatible with existing
installations on the southern/mersey.

James



There must be some mechanism to give dispensation in some circumstances

Other wise laying down the conductor rails on the Old Dalby test track to
test the LU S Stock
could not have occurred . A lot of it on there is protected by side
protection boards but quite a lot of pictures show a lot is not,

And while it can claim to be part of an existing system the extension of
the Glasgow Subway Test Track only has side protection boarding in a
couple of places.

I hadn’t realised how far back along the old Govan branch trackbed after
the A8 bridge they had recovered to extend the test track and build
facilities.

A little further and we could have a mixed gauge interchange.

Dropped pin
https://goo.gl/maps/npqUH5YqNJafK1aH7



Some pictures of the facilities here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/amacca...n/photostream/

GH