http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Train on a lorry! en Fri, 22 May 2026 09:23:11 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13455#post-168429 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:21:34 +0000 AKen 168429@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If a train has to go ON another train then it probably won't have the clearance required for tunnels and bridges. So they put it on a truck. Just don't go via Cameron Toll. Or Slateford. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13455#post-168427 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:07:21 +0000 Tulyar 168427@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It often costs more money to send a train by train than on a truck - daft as it seems. Especially the case when the train has a damaged part that means it has to move slowly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13455#post-166194 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:56:26 +0000 kaputnik 166194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've seen this before. Assume it's a damaged part of a unit that cannot be sorted at Haymarket so has to Glasgow for repairs. If it can't be drived or towed as a dead unit, it has to go by lorry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13455#post-166170 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:36:17 +0000 custard 166170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tram hybrid? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13455#post-166043 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:24:31 +0000 Coxy 166043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was this heading east? </p> <p>I saw it going into the Haymarket Depot on Russell Road around 9:45. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13455#post-165981 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:33:21 +0000 geordiefatbloke 165981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On my cycle in this morning I saw a train on the back of a huge lorry going along past the zoo. A full carriage of the type typically used by ScotRail (it was a very big lorry!). Anyone know what was going on? I guess they have to transport trains by road at some point in their life ... </p>