On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Peter Lawrence wrote:

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:50:23 -0800 (PST), Paul
wrote:

On Nov 3, 11:29=A0pm, E27002 wrote:
On Nov 3, 1:07=A0pm, (Neil Williams)
wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:01:01 -0800 (PST), Rob rob_s_sm...@hotmail=
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wrote:

There has been a campaign to run the Abbey Flyer into Euston in the
past, but it always ran into the problem that Virgin needed the
train paths, whereas St Albans already has a direct route into
London (albeit very overloaded)

There has to be room on the slow lines, as LM are increasing the
service in December with some Watford shuttles that could easily run
through from St Albans if the infrastructure was sorted.

Where will this tram be maintained? =A0How will it reach that
location? If it is to reach Bletchley, it will have to be 25 kV Ac, or
pulled by another motive power unit.

My best guess is that these issues have been considered.

Where will this tram be maintained? How will it reach that location?
If it is to reach Bletchley, it will have to be 25 kV Ac, or pulled by
another motive power unit.

Are you mad? No they'd load it on to an Alley's low loader every night
for the move to Bletchley depot. Come one now man, get a grip of
yourself. We can't have rolling stock being moved from location to
another by rail!! Its just not British!

You missed an earler post which said that room for a depot had been
identified at st Albans. However the official answer now is that this
is up to the contractor to sort out. I would have throught that Watford
or the former North Watford sidings, had beter potential depot space.

Does it really make sense to have a dedicated maintenance facility just
for this one tram? Or when we say 'depot', do we mean 'somewhere to sleep
at night plus somewhere for light maintenance eg changing the light
bulbs', with heavy work being done at an existing major depot reached by
rail or low-loader?

tom

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