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From: [e-mail] (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Nick Leverton) writes:
|> [e-mail] (where *has* he been?) writes:
Ohhh... you know... round and abouts.
|>
|> But just to make you happy, a traction motor from a Networker [the new
|> generation of trains, ordered mid 1980's and - thanks to That Bloody
|> Woman - only being delivered in the mid 1990's] was recently demonstrated
|> running immersed in a tank of water to prove its immunity to the problem.
|>
|> And I have *never*, *ever* heard of your "wrong kind of leaves" story.
|> Please suppy a reference for it.
|>

Wasn't it (recalls scratchy and rather inaccurate memory) when they introduced
a new train that was so light (you know, one of them bus-bodies on a rail
chassis) that it didn't have the traction to climb some of the grades over the
Pennines when heavy falls of leaves made the tracks all slippery. I think
that's the incident I was thinking of. Definately happened. For a while they
were talking about putting huge lead weights or something into them so that
they'd have the traction....

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Dan Crow
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