On 4 Apr 2005, Boltar wrote:


Jack Taylor wrote:
"Boltar" wrote in message
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Whatever happened to moving trains by rail? How can it be easier to
stick it on a low loader (not to mention the traffic chaos is will
inevitably cause as it moves at a snails pace)?

Because as trains have become faster and more frequent there are fewer
and fewer paths for moving low-speed stock around the country. Would
you appreciate your 125mph train being delayed whilst a 40mph transfer
of London Underground stock limped into a loop ahead of you?

Surely it can be done at night? Besides , how many people does a slow
moving low loader inconvenience , especially if its doing 20mph on windy
B road?

You'd think they could at least put it on a swapbody and move *that* by
rail, at a decent speed, in the normal manner of rail freight.

But, as Jack said, they presumably looked into this and found it would be
more expensive. Pretty poor show by rail freight there .

tom

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