Boltar wrote:
Christine wrote:
There were lots of gauging problems when Netwrokers were introduce.
Several places having to have 'glued ballast'.

Presumably they are not passed on the 'Southern' lines because they
have never gauged tested the area for Networkers

It never ceases to amaze me how tight the clearences are on british
railways. Did it never occur to the builders of the lines to maybe
leave a spare foot here and there just-in-case? Ok , for tunnels
this would be expensive but how much extra would it have cost to make
lineside obstacles, bridge supports etc a foot or 2 further from the
track when you're building a 30 foot wide permanent way anyway? Plus
those victorians did loved their curved platforms, just to make life
a real pain for longer vehicles.


The problem is caused by building longer and wider trains which are a
tighter fit to the loading gauge. Perhaps if you could find a way of
reducing average people sizes to Victorian dimensions, we could revert
to narrower trains.
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Richard J.
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