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Title: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: infoman on October 27, 2022, 07:15:06 being used on the branch lines in Cornwall,film footage on BBC spotlight local news on Wednesday night.
Available for 24 hours only on i-player thingy Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: GBM on October 27, 2022, 07:59:47 https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/banishing-the-autumn-blues-specially-adapted-land-rover-helping-keep-devons-railway-track-leaf-free-this-autumn
https://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/23064989.land-rover-conversion-sand-rover-helps-clear-trail-tracks/ Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: Pb_devon on October 27, 2022, 08:00:15 Story also here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-63403717
Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: GBM on October 27, 2022, 08:04:17 Perhaps thread title could be amended to include 'Sand Rover' somewhere please
Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: grahame on October 27, 2022, 08:22:09 being used on the branch lines in Cornwall,film footage on BBC spotlight local news on Wednesday night. Available for 24 hours only on i-player thingy Travelling around this week - it's very much the wheel slip season. The Birmingham to Holyhead train on Monday (2 x 158) was struggling with wheel slip, and the 22xxx unit I'm on at the moment from Docklands to M3 Parkway has been slipping around Castlerock. Remembering the last year at this time and the collision at Salisbury; a serious issues these days (and this season). Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: stuving on October 27, 2022, 11:07:24 When I saw this yesterday I thought it was about another of those new ideas for hi-tech leafblasters. It turns out those were two separate stories, at opposite ends of the technology spectrum. So, if wire brushes are a bit too Mrs Mopp for you, would you prefer a bit of plasma?
From Rail Advent (https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/10/east-lancashire-railway-used-to-test-laser-beams-and-plasma-technology-to-clear-autumn-leaves.html): Quote East Lancashire Railway used to test laser beams and plasma technology to clear autumn leaves (https://www.railadvent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Side-view-of-the-plasma-jet-in-action-during-Network-Rail-rail-trials-750x422.jpg) A futuristic method of solving the problem of autumn leaves on railway lines is being trialled by Network Rail with space-age technology that uses lasers and plasma jets. During autumn, leaves on the rails are compressed by train wheels into a black Teflon-like residue ,which makes it harder for trains to brake or accelerate and causes delays to train services. A fleet of leaf-blasting trains currently uses high-pressure water jets to clear Britain’s 20,000-mile railway network. During the last few weeks, Great Western has been trialling a specially-adapted Land Rover to clear leaves from Devon’s railway lines. The trials are being carried out throughout October by Network Rail using its multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) on the East Lancashire Railway to see if autumn treatment trains fitted with laser beams and superheated plasma jets are as effective at cleaning rails as the current method that uses high-pressure water systems. I'm impressed by those "superheated plasma jets". You wouldn't like that plain old tepid plasma, would you? Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: ChrisB on October 27, 2022, 13:34:54 This tech was previously trialled and not priceeded with - I wonder what’s changed to trial again?
Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: bradshaw on October 27, 2022, 16:14:31 https://twitter.com/btf_films/status/1585284987288489985?s=61&t=vYvBk24BTnxk_ayN6sKpQA 50 years ago according to Roger Ford of Modern Railways Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: Electric train on October 28, 2022, 07:28:02 This tech was previously trialled and not priceeded with - I wonder what’s changed to trial again? Technology moves on, what was once a great idea but did not work can now be posible Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: ChrisB on October 28, 2022, 07:55:05 Quite, hence my question :D
Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: CyclingSid on October 28, 2022, 08:21:06 The rail-adapted Land Rover is certainly not new
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/539376492852885669/ (https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/539376492852885669/) an old Land Rover publicity photo of a Series II Land Rover (NOT Defender). Seeing as it is now some years since Land Rover built any practical vehicles it would probably come down to something like Unimog for new builds https://www.solytek.com/fr/vehicules-rail-route/ (https://www.solytek.com/fr/vehicules-rail-route/) Title: Re: road rail leaf cleaner like a land rover Post by: ChrisB on October 28, 2022, 09:03:51 My understanding is that the plasma jet was the technology previously tested, not the rail-road vehicle
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