Malcolm Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Sorry, but that's Catch-22 again. (a) We can't use rail-mounted cranes because they won't go under the bridges. (b) We don't build cranes which can go under the bridges because rail-mounted cranes are never used these days. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
