Great Western Coffee Shop

Network Rail are inviting travelers to vote for the name of their leaf busting machine,the names are.



    Ctrl Alt De-leaf

    Leaf-Fall Weapon

    Pulp Friction

    The Autumn Avenger

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/can-you-help-name-one-of-our-leaf-busting-trains/

(https://www.wellho.info/pix/leifbuster.jpg)

The NR link lists a few of the others that didn't quite make the final 4.....pity that' Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Leaf Machiney’ wasn't included.   :D

Well, that's a releaf.  ::)

 Quote from NR Media and PR Contractors:-

“We use tried and tested methods for keeping trains moving through autumn as well as different techniques and new technology in some parts of the country.”

A simpler method for a start would be to re establish the 5 metres back from the cess flail strip railway standard, to at least remove the now widespread tree, bushes, buddleia and bramble etc lineside growth that increasingly comes into contact and scratches trains paintwork etc.. viz IETs on the Newquay branch as just one example.

Leafy McLeaf-face?

That was never going to be a matter of when and if but how long before

I'd put pretty good money on the likelihood that was amongst the many suggestions made.

I wooden wish to add to any tree based puns.

Ah!  I've just twigged what this topic is about.  :)

Also on the line between Trowbridge and Melksham, and on to Chippenham: on a recent journey, I was somewhat startled at the amount of foliage which was hitting the train as we passed.  ::)

I thought these had already been named! I have clear memories of these from my commuting days. Network Rail would "do" the North Downs line with them and park them up in platforms 4/5/6 at Reading, where they would leave the engines running, generating a lot of noise and fumes for those of us getting off or on the trains to Guildford or Waterloo.  Their pathing also meant that connections were missed at Reading due to the delay to the following (often my) train. Grr......... !

They (or rather, their cabs) were in various colours, including one in pink, but I'm pretty certain all carried names, painted on the cabsides. I regret that the names they carried were not sufficiently memorable that I now recall them.

They aren't just used on branch lines, then?