More on the third rail
Radio 4’s You and Yours reported on Friday December 17 that ScotRail deploys trains with “skirts” and engine mounted hot air blowers to keep services in operation-even towards the far north.
My tentative suggestion regarding heating and clearing the rails in this way seems to be an established technology there.
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Hide AdA friend in Glasgow confirms that this has all been heavily featured in the local press recently.
I don’t think it involves a third rail but it is the same working (in the sense that it does work) principle.
I would have thought that anything doing so well in Scotland should be a bit of a “shoe in” for the South East’s perennial problem.
I can’t even see that it needs to cost that much-even for only intermittent usage (although the need is more like constant at the moment).
Does the will, concern and imagination to actually do something about this exist though?
DAVE WALSH
Rotherfield Avenue
Bexhill