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« on: October 04, 2024, 08:30:37 »

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
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2024, 08:43:19 »

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/


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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2024, 13:09:13 »

The NR» (Network Rail - home page) 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.   Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2024, 13:42:26 »

Well, that's a releaf.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2024, 14:27:44 »


 Quote from NR» (Network Rail - home page) Media and PR (Public Relations) 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 (Intercity Express Train) on the Newquay branch as just one example.

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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2024, 14:39:07 »

Leafy McLeaf-face?
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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2024, 14:43:10 »

That was never going to be a matter of when and if but how long before
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2024, 16:06:23 »

Leafy McLeaf-face?

I'd put pretty good money on the likelihood that was amongst the many suggestions made.
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2024, 16:10:36 »

I wooden wish to add to any tree based puns.
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2024, 16:29:01 »

Ah!  I've just twigged what this topic is about.  Smiley
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2024, 16:34:47 »


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 (Intercity Express Train) on the Newquay branch as just one example.


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.  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2024, 19:22:07 »

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.
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« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2024, 19:31:45 »

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