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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:10:50 GMT
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GH10K4.B15@lugnet.com...
> 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'.
I meant quiet by the way!
> > And now too expensive an infrastructure to resurrect.
> > Pity.
> 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.
Interesting.
I guess that in some respects the infrastructure cost is not necessarily any different to other forms of mass transit.
If you ignore regular buses, which dont need new roads, then I guess laying the electricity cables along existing roads
is cheaper than digging up the road for tram tracks, or finding new routes for the trains.
Why wouldn't you just go for battery powered buses though?
Battery power has come on a great deal since the trolley bus era, yet offers the same benefit.
While we are discussing mass transits, ask your colleagues why they dont build some monorails :-)
When I was young, they were also portrayed as the mass transit of the future.
Isnt there a new one in Japan, or is it Germany. Using Magnetic levitation type stuff?
There's a though, a lego mag lev monorail!
regards
lawrence
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| Now this is long and maybe too off-topic but I thought you trainheads might be interested in transport issues, let me know if I shouldn't post this sort of thing: (...) Lawrence wrote: (...) The life of a battery used in a bus application, which is (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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