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Old December 30th 10, 08:35 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default The "Third Rail problem"

On Dec 29, 7:03*pm, "Roger Traviss"
wrote:
Here's an idea...get a 160 ton steam train fitted with a snow plough
that shifts the snow, and crunches the ice.


Apart from a distinct lack of 160 ton steam locos, the snow plough is not
going to get the ice off the conductor rail. *Great idea otherwise...


And you don't need a "160 ton steam train", or did he mean "locomotive"?

I thought it was only the media and the unwashed masses who didn't know the
difference between a train and a locomotive.

And what does this "solution" do for the third rail?