Robin May wrote:
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"EorJames" wrote:
You know what you dont like this go away.
It looks like you come in here to cause trouble.
Muppet? You could of done something better than that.
You dont like the line, then be off with you Boltar.
How about you explain why the EOR ripped up the conductor rails
so precluding any heritage tube operation.
I seem to remember reading the answer to that question here already.
It's because HMRI won't let any new railway start up using
unprotected
conductor rails like those on the tube. Presumably they consider the
EOR to be a new railway.
Seems unlikely to me. If that were the case then the whole of network
southeast would have had to have been de-electrified when network rail
took over from railtrack. Besides , they could have remained unpowered
until an agreement had been reached. I suspect the real reason is that
they made a nice little earner for the EOR down the scrap merchants.
B2003