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Title: What was this? Post by: Mookiemoo on June 15, 2010, 21:06:46 Never seen it before
I give up - some sort of yellow not work rail thing that looks like it carries glass panels Cant upload the photo Title: Re: What was this? Post by: Ollie on June 15, 2010, 21:07:47 Something to do with your iPhone? I don't know :)
Title: Re: What was this? Post by: Mookiemoo on June 15, 2010, 21:10:05 Figured out a way around it
Title: Re: What was this? Post by: Mookiemoo on June 15, 2010, 21:10:30 Was at hereford tonight at about 730pm
Title: Re: What was this? Post by: inspector_blakey on June 15, 2010, 21:27:11 Sounds like one of their fancy new wagons for replacing points quickly. The deal is that the turnout is assembled ahead of time (rather than on site) then loaded onto the wagon and transported to the work site on an angle so it more or less fits the loading gauge. Then at the work site it's unloaded from the wagon whole and moved into position.
Much quicker than building the turnout piece by piece on site! Title: Re: What was this? Post by: JayMac on June 15, 2010, 21:36:55 Your pic ain't great but I'm guessing you saw one of these:
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/tiltwag.jpg) Title: Re: What was this? Post by: Mookiemoo on June 15, 2010, 22:37:14 Your pic ain't great but I'm guessing you saw one of these: (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/tiltwag.jpg) Thats what I saw - still none the wiser what it does Explain in laymans terms Title: Re: What was this? Post by: inspector_blakey on June 15, 2010, 22:39:51 Carries large chunks of points from one place to another then dumps them on the ground so they can be installed.
Because the points are assembled in an engineering depot ahead of time and then carried to the work site more or less intact, it means replacement is much quicker than building the point on site starting from individual sleepers and rails. That means shorter engineering possessions for replacing points and fewer replacement buses, in theory. Title: Re: What was this? Post by: Mookiemoo on June 15, 2010, 22:46:39 Thank you - the reason I noted this.......
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