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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:14:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> I do love trolley buses.
> Having lived in a couple of the last towns in the UK to run them (Walsall and Bournemouth). Are they still in Blackpool?
> Damned fine quite, pollution free solution that was sacrificed in the name of 'progress'.
> And now too expensive an infrastructure to resurrect.
> Pity.
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Well, I may have good news for you Lawrence. My colleagues at work are now
consulting over new 'Intermediate Modes' schemes for London (due to the huge
success of Croydon Tramlink) and the result may be trolleybuses in
Greenwich, Uxbridge Road or Barking within a decade.
Psi
(Rail Services Directorate, Transport for London)
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| "Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GH10K4.B15@lugnet.com... (...) Blackpool? (...) I meant quiet by the way! (...) Interesting. I guess that in some respects the infrastructure cost is not necessarily any different (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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| Further to the caboose debate, here is a british guards van (URL) is one of the last design that British Railways (as it was then), built in the sixties. They were used to provide extra braking in the days before wagons had automatic air brakes. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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| "Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:3B5E4219.79B21C...ane.edu... (...) I didn't say I don't love them. They are a quaint design. What I was pointing out is that outside of the USA they are not a classic and (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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