roythebus
Pleased to say the restoration of BEA coach MLL738 is as complete as it can be, now restoring MLL721
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Post by roythebus on Mar 22, 2013 10:04:01 GMT
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Post by grahamhewett on Mar 22, 2013 16:24:18 GMT
You don't happen to have a pic of the maintenance vehicle by any chance?
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roythebus
Pleased to say the restoration of BEA coach MLL738 is as complete as it can be, now restoring MLL721
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Post by roythebus on Mar 22, 2013 16:31:43 GMT
What maintenance vehicle? The only one I ever saw in my days on the W&C was a 4-wheeled hand trolley!
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Post by grahamhewett on Mar 22, 2013 18:42:24 GMT
That's the one - LU lawyers made a great fuss about describing this at the time of transfer, describing it as a multi-purpose maintenance trolley. Unfortunately, i didn't have time to go and debunk them...
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roythebus
Pleased to say the restoration of BEA coach MLL738 is as complete as it can be, now restoring MLL721
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Post by roythebus on Mar 25, 2013 16:39:16 GMT
An amusing tale: we used to have 8 turns to "walk the tunnel" every Saturday afternoon after the trains had stopped and the juice was off in order keep ourselves familiar with the emergency equipment in the tunnels and the pump room in the sump.
One Saturday on the way back up from the sump we heard the sound of a train approaching from Waterloo!! SH***T, we thought and turned back and ran down the tunnel to the next cross-passage. We gasped as the "approaching train" was a few bods pushing said multi-purpose hand-powered trolley!
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Post by grahamhewett on Mar 25, 2013 18:11:11 GMT
Ho Ho! Presumably, it looked like that one in the Bond film...
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roythebus
Pleased to say the restoration of BEA coach MLL738 is as complete as it can be, now restoring MLL721
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Post by roythebus on Mar 25, 2013 21:16:10 GMT
Ho Ho! Presumably, it looked like that one in the Bond film... Dunno, I didn't hang around long enough to find out! It was reportedly the quickest tunnel walk in history! |
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Post by bassmike on Mar 25, 2013 22:43:58 GMT
Istr that at one point there was a battery powered track maintainence vehicle on the W@C. 1990's? It had no through axles and could carry rails etc between its side frames.
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Post by phillw48 on Mar 25, 2013 22:52:52 GMT
More like 70's than 90's. I've seen a picture of it somewhere.
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Post by bassmike on Mar 26, 2013 13:35:43 GMT
I think there was a live video of this thing somewhere. It made a terrible howling sound when moving like it was in first gear in a 10 speed gearbox Seemd to move at snails pace.
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