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Charles Ellson wrote:

AFAIR another reason for the continuing use of older tube stock
is
that the motors and underfloor equipment on newer types would
need
extra protection against salt spray at Ryde Pier, the alternative
being truncation of the service away from the sea.


Yet the busiest sector of the Island Line - by far - is the one
between Ryde Pier and Ryde Esplanade.

Have they thought of perhaps running some sort of shuttle service
from
Ryde Pier Head to Ryde Esplanade, allowing passengers to transfer to
other rolling stock? My guess is that this would not really be
feasible, however.

There used to be a tramway shuttle that did exactly that back in the
dim
and distant. The tracks were between the railway line proper and the
roadway out to the pierhead.

Something like the Hythe Pier Railway?

IIRC both utilised petrol engined traction.

Why don't they do that, if corrosion is going to be such a concern on
newer
models?



You've still got corosion problems for a tram, if you can solve that you
can
presumably solve it for a train.

--
Graeme Wall

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Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

You know, a horse-drawn wooden tram (I originally wrote wooden horse tram,
hmmm ... ) would be very much a touristy, novelty thing. No problems with
tripcocks, corrosion - well it can be dealt with. If Victor Harbour in South
Australia can have one out across a jetty/bridge/pier type structure, so can
the Isle of Wight. Of course, the animal libbers could end up lying across
the tracks - unless you perhaps had a lovely Clydesdale there with a brewery
dray and a nice drop on tap!! In which case they'd still be lying across the
tracks, paralytic rather than politic.