Train washing

[higthomas]

Just a quick question: In the current issue of modern railways, it says that "the basic 00 version [of a wash plant] is in the region of £300,000 per wash, that's a lot cheaper than blokes with brushes."

Now either I have misunderstood something, or we really are wasting our money.

I assume this is a misprint?

 

[lincolnshire]

Just a quick question: In the current issue of modern railways, it says that "the basic 00 version [of a wash plant] is in the region of £300,000 per wash, that's a lot cheaper than blokes with brushes."

Now either I have misunderstood something, or we really are wasting our money.

I assume this is a misprint?

God I hope so, as at that price just look how much you could save by not washing them, as most these days never look out of the windows as there too busy playing games, watching television on there phones or playing on there computers. Nobody looks out the windows much these days, if they did they would see all the crap left laid at the side of the track.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Just a quick question: In the current issue of modern railways, it says that "the basic 00 version [of a wash plant] is in the region of £300,000 per wash, that's a lot cheaper than blokes with brushes."

Now either I have misunderstood something, or we really are wasting our money.

I assume this is a misprint?

Is the wash not referring to the plant i.e. the equipment used to do the washing? The expression Carwash is often used to describe the equipment rather than the cleaning session.
Disclaimer: I have not seen the original article.

 

[edwin_m]

I've seen a similar price for a wash plant somewhere recently so I guess that is right.

Then again if that's the 00 version Hornby must have put their prices up recently.

 

[ExRes]

Just a quick question: In the current issue of modern railways, it says that "the basic 00 version [of a wash plant] is in the region of £300,000 per wash, that's a lot cheaper than blokes with brushes."

Now either I have misunderstood something, or we really are wasting our money.

I assume this is a misprint?

I remember the guys at Euston Downside hand washing a couple of mail sets each day in the mid/late 90s, maybe the report is true as I'm sure they all used to park their Bentleys and Rollers outside the shed and hang their Rolexes up in the mess room .......

 

[83G/84D]

I was once on duty when the Royal train was stabling at our depot, we were told that the carriage washer had to be turned off before it came through it as the coaches were hand waxed/polished!

It was a few years back so not sure if it was the case then or now tbh.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

"Hand bashing" - does really lift the dirt off well ....

In the early days of the GN electrics - the sets were washed so frequently at Hornsey - detergent was not neccesary....

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I was once on duty when the Royal train was stabling at our depot, we were told that the carriage washer had to be turned off before it came through it as the coaches were hand waxed/polished!

It was a few years back so not sure if it was the case then or now tbh.

If one were to put the Grove through an automatic washer it would emerge much dirtier than before it went in!

 

[ExRes]

I was once on duty when the Royal train was stabling at our depot, we were told that the carriage washer had to be turned off before it came through it as the coaches were hand waxed/polished!

It was a few years back so not sure if it was the case then or now tbh.

I recall one of the 47s, 798 or 799, being put through the washer at Wembley and having its EWS/Royal maroon livery smudged rather, it seems they were banned because of the type of paint used on them