"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
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In article , Peter Masson
writes
ISTR 319s having trouble when they worked to Rugby, when their shoegear
fouled nice high ballast shoulders on the WCML.

Memory says that when the 313s went to Clacton for a while, they had to
have the shoegear removed for similar reasons. And I'm sure I've seen a
notice that 313s were banned from certain tracks on Euston-Camden if they
had shoes.

ISTR that the 377s that now work the Watford junction service have
retractable shoegear ...

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