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 ...
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Train on a lorry!
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Was this heading east?
I saw it going into the Haymarket Depot on Russell Road around 9:45.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Tram hybrid?
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
Posted 10 years ago #
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