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Mail Rail (Post Office Railway) visit
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:04:07 +0000
Roland Perry wrote: In message 2132316179.542480534.571005.recliner.ng- , at 17:05:04 on Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Recliner remarked: Additionally the conductor rail has to be removed to allow the passenger train to run; this is not a problem in itself but it does prevent future demonstrations of automatic trains (something I'd love to see, but I don't know if it's on anyone's agenda) if you remove too much of it. I didn't know the line had been used for trials of automatic trains? How would they get them up and down, given that the old depot can no longer be used for surface access? Here's how they took out some of the remaining trains in 2011: https://www.londonreconnections.com/...ving-the-mail- rail/ Some quite thin chains given how heavy those locomotives must be. |
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