wrote:
"Jack Taylor" wrote in message
...

I've seen precious little evidence of that yet. There has been
significant slaughtering of the trees on the embankments, though,
north of Rickmansworth - some pretty big ones at that.

Why are they chopping down the trees?

The usual issue. Like NR, they've done so little embankment and surrounds
maintenance for over forty years that there are some very big deciduous
trees dropping their juicy leaves on the track in the autumn! So everything
on the embankment, within the boundary fence, is going. In some places,
encroaching vegetation on adjacent properties is being cut back as well.

Why are they chopping down the trees?



STEAM! Back in the days of old when steam ran, the heat and exhaust used to
keep any trees at bay and preventing them from encroaching too close to the
railway (with of course the odd fire thrown in)
However, as mentioned, since those days are long gone (electrification) the
trees themselves have pretty much grown as they wanted. They also cut them
down when they need to do bank stabilisation works.

Jack Taylor wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:

Rebuilding the 'sub surface railway' track and formation to mainline
standards throughout, so that the S stock will ride properly when
delivered.

I've seen precious little evidence of that yet. There has been
significant slaughtering of the trees on the embankments, though,
north of Rickmansworth - some pretty big ones at that.

Now we know what the S stands for...

On 9 Apr, 01:40, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Jack Taylor wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:

Rebuilding the 'sub surface railway' track and formation to mainline
standards throughout, so that the S stock will ride properly when
delivered.

I've seen precious little evidence of that yet. There has been
significant slaughtering of the trees on the embankments, though,
north of Rickmansworth - some pretty big ones at that.

Now we know what the S stands for...

Sycamore?

wrote:
On 9 Apr, 01:40, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Jack Taylor wrote:
Paul Scott wrote:

Rebuilding the 'sub surface railway' track and formation to
mainline standards throughout, so that the S stock will ride
properly when delivered.

I've seen precious little evidence of that yet. There has been
significant slaughtering of the trees on the embankments, though,
north of Rickmansworth - some pretty big ones at that.

Now we know what the S stands for...

Sycamore?

Steam!

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:35:07 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

Rebuilding the 'sub surface railway' track and formation to mainline
standards throughout, so that the S stock will ride properly when delivered.

Genuinely? About bloody time if they are.

Talking of such, I note that there is new continuously welded bullhead
rail in Euston Square station - never seen that before!

Neil

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In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:35:07 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

Rebuilding the 'sub surface railway' track and formation to mainline
standards throughout, so that the S stock will ride properly when
delivered.

Genuinely? About bloody time if they are.

Talking of such, I note that there is new continuously welded bullhead
rail in Euston Square station - never seen that before!

I thought long welded rail (300M lengths ISTR) was normal practice for
years before flat bottomed rail became standard on LU.

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Colin Rosenstiel