Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"Bluestars" wrote in message ...
BBC South Today this evening showed pictures of a
slam door carriage being torn to pieces in the
demolition yard at Immingham.

The programme may probably be viewed at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/southtoday/
View todays programme.

Note the programme may be seen this night only.

The clip was at the end of the broadcast programme.

(Not viewed this myself as it requires Real Player)

Roger

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?

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North wrote:
"Bluestars" wrote in message
...
BBC South Today this evening showed pictures of a
slam door carriage being torn to pieces in the
demolition yard at Immingham.

The programme may probably be viewed at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/southtoday/
View todays programme.

Note the programme may be seen this night only.

The clip was at the end of the broadcast programme.

(Not viewed this myself as it requires Real Player)

Roger

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?

Down where? You're "In The North" remember. Which particular train
demolition yard in London did you have in mind?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North" wrote in
message m...
"Bluestars" wrote in message
...
BBC South Today this evening showed pictures of a
slam door carriage being torn to pieces in the
demolition yard at Immingham.

The programme may probably be viewed at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/southtoday/
View todays programme.

Note the programme may be seen this night only.

The clip was at the end of the broadcast programme.

(Not viewed this myself as it requires Real Player)

Roger

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?

I liked the old slam door trains. They were warmer and more comfortable
than the new sliding door, rattling, cattle boxes that we have to travel in.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:35:30 -0000, "Tom Sacold"
wrote:


I liked the old slam door trains. They were warmer and more comfortable
than the new sliding door, rattling, cattle boxes that we have to travel in.

and you get to sit in the First class carriages on my line.... :-)

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"Tom Sacold" wrote the following in:


I liked the old slam door trains. They were warmer and more
comfortable than the new sliding door, rattling, cattle boxes that
we have to travel in.

You obviously aren't a c2c passenger then.

--
message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith.
Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

Robin May may be my name, but Robin is my first name.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"Robin May" wrote in message
. 1.4...
"Tom Sacold" wrote the following in:


I liked the old slam door trains. They were warmer and more
comfortable than the new sliding door, rattling, cattle boxes that
we have to travel in.

You obviously aren't a c2c passenger then.

--
message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith.
Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

Robin May may be my name, but Robin is my first name.

Great Eastern into Liverpool Street.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"Tom Sacold" wrote the following in:



"Robin May" wrote in message
. 1.4...
"Tom Sacold" wrote the following in:


I liked the old slam door trains. They were warmer and more
comfortable than the new sliding door, rattling, cattle boxes that
we have to travel in.

You obviously aren't a c2c passenger then.

--
message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith.
Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

Robin May may be my name, but Robin is my first name.

Great Eastern into Liverpool Street.

I was and still am a regular c2c passenger before and after they
replaced their slam door trains with nice new sliding door ones. The
sliding door ones are more comfortable, cleaner, faster, a nicer
temperature and generally a more pleasant environment to travel in.

If your experience of the Great Eastern is with the horrible trains
they have which are like those on the North London Line then I could
understand that you'd prefer the slam door ones.

--
message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith.
Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

Robin May may be my name, but Robin is my first name.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

On 17 Dec 2003 18:29:09 GMT, Robin May
wrote:

I was and still am a regular c2c passenger before and after they
replaced their slam door trains with nice new sliding door ones. The
sliding door ones are more comfortable, cleaner, faster, a nicer
temperature and generally a more pleasant environment to travel in.
[snip]

I travel on c2c from time to time and agree that their new trains are
VERY comfortable, maybe a little too much so. I really don't like
waking up in Southend when I'm supposed to get off at Stanford!


--
Michelle Lee (U.K)

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:57:20 +0000, Michelle Lee
wrote:

I travel on c2c from time to time and agree that their new trains are
VERY comfortable, maybe a little too much so. I really don't like
waking up in Southend when I'm supposed to get off at Stanford!

I was quite surprised at the build quality, personally - a lot of
solid metal and "hard-wearing" colours compared very favourably to the
flimsy plastic interiors of the Turbostars from the same manufacturer.

Neil

--
Neil Williams
is a valid email address, but is sent to /dev/null.
Try my first name at the above domain instead if you want to e-mail me.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"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.

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
message m...

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.

--
- Jack.

http://www.tabbyvans.co.uk -- For 'purrfect' caravan holidays!

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"Jack" wrote in message
...
Once upon a time, Robin Mayes spake thus:
"CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North" wrote
in
message m...

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.

--
- Jack.

http://www.tabbyvans.co.uk -- For 'purrfect' caravan holidays!
A lot of the SR EMU's are being stored in Shoeberryness MOD site by serco.
They have set up an asbestos removal building. When they are finished with
it it gets takes to a scrapyard by road and then broken up. I have been to
the site a couple of times regarding my groups 308 vehicle.

Nick
www.acemugroup.org.uk

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

Down where? You're "In The North" remember. Which particular train
demolition yard in London did you have in mind?


What scrapyards still scrap trains?

I know of Immingham, and Simms.

Is Booth Roe Rotherham still going or Glasgow MC?

Mat.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

"Mat" wrote in message
om...
Down where? You're "In The North" remember. Which particular train
demolition yard in London did you have in mind?


What scrapyards still scrap trains?

I know of Immingham, and Simms.

Is Booth Roe Rotherham still going or Glasgow MC?

Mat.

AFAIK MC at Glasgow is now a branch of Tesco. Again AFAIK, the breakers
closed due to the infamous 1000+ day lack of orders for new trains and
resultant lack of Mk1s being withdrawn.

HTH

GreenArrow

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:42:44 -0000, "\"GreenArrow\""
wrote:


"Mat" wrote in message
. com...
Down where? You're "In The North" remember. Which particular train
demolition yard in London did you have in mind?


What scrapyards still scrap trains?

I know of Immingham, and Simms.

Is Booth Roe Rotherham still going or Glasgow MC?

Mat.

AFAIK MC at Glasgow is now a branch of Tesco. Again AFAIK, the breakers
closed due to the infamous 1000+ day lack of orders for new trains and
resultant lack of Mk1s being withdrawn.

Booths at Rotherham is still a going concern, but didn't the last
batch of 101s for scrap go to somewhere in South Wales from Longsight
last week?


--
Regards

Mike

mikedotroebuckatgmxdotnet

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

Mike Roebuck wrote in message . ..
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:42:44 -0000, "\"GreenArrow\""
wrote:


"Mat" wrote in message
. com...
Down where? You're "In The North" remember. Which particular train
demolition yard in London did you have in mind?


What scrapyards still scrap trains?

I know of Immingham, and Simms.

Is Booth Roe Rotherham still going or Glasgow MC?

Mat.

AFAIK MC at Glasgow is now a branch of Tesco. Again AFAIK, the breakers
closed due to the infamous 1000+ day lack of orders for new trains and
resultant lack of Mk1s being withdrawn.

Booths at Rotherham is still a going concern, but didn't the last
batch of 101s for scrap go to somewhere in South Wales from Longsight
last week?

Yes somewhere in South Wales...but i'm not sure where though.

Slam door carriage torn apart on BBC South Today
 

Once upon a time, Mat spake thus:
Mike Roebuck wrote in message news:lb3euv0883al9137je

Booths at Rotherham is still a going concern, but didn't the last
batch of 101s for scrap go to somewhere in South Wales from Longsight
last week?

Yes somewhere in South Wales...but i'm not sure where though.

Of course your not, because they never arrived, instead they were
quietly signalled off the main line at sbvhjafvgasdm../......

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