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Old December 18th 03, 01:42 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today

Once upon a time, Robin Mayes spake thus:
"CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North" wrote in
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Why exactly are they being taken all the way to Grimsby to be
demolished? Wouldn't it be more effective to do it down here?


Asbestos.


Somehow I doubt anything containing asbestos would be shredded by a
demolition crane as that coach was. Meyer Newman used to put such
vehicles through a firing tunnel which inflicted such a conflagration
that the main frames would sag, not sure what other scrapyards did but
to get rid of asbestos is serious work.

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