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- From: eset08@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Strobridge)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad,uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
- Message-ID: <30892@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:31:15 GMT
- References: <728033204snx@warren.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan26.144244.10642@bradford.ac.uk>
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- >>
- >>And I have *never*, *ever* heard of your "wrong kind of leaves" story.
- >>Please suppy a reference for it.
- >>
-
- >My recollection is that it wasn't the "wrong kind of leaves" it
- >was just "leaves on the track".
-
- >Of course you don't expect a shock fall of leaves on the track
- >in Autumn. :-)
-
- The story I heard was some part of the country, I forget where, had
- a heavy fall of autumn leaves one year followed by overnight rain.
- Consequently the leaves that fell into the points systems simply
- glued up, jammed everything and a whole lot of poor BR workmen had
- to go and clean the points out by hand before the trains were able
- to run again!
-
- But then it could just be an excuse to plant acres of inpenetrable
- pine forest alongside the tracks instead and then cut it down to sell
- for timber. Would be nice if they planted a few Canadian redwood
- trees or something though. Long term planning.......
-
-
- jill
-