On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:09:27 +0100, Brian Dominic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >The bean counters decided years ago that maintaining a fleet of >breakdown cranes "just in case" was money down the drain - similarly >with snowploughs! I think you are right about the cranes. They were old and obsolete, modern cranes available by specialised contractors were seen as the way forward. They can be huge as I showed in links to video clips about the Cumbria crash, and the chassis is too big to move by rail - so Adrian's idea of dismantling would be a non starter. Brian - I thought Derbyshire ( which ISSR is where you are ? ) gets plenty of snow. You get more than us up here in Scotland - especially Matlock, Glossop ?? Actually NR have several snowplows up here. I think they are stored near Motherwell during the summer, but move to strategic places for winter. I've seen one enroute this past winter to Inverness via the old Scottish Central near Perth :-)) They are still based on the old class 40 bogies I think. Malcolm -- Malcolm
