Old: Class 43 on the road!

[Broken Viking]

Hail All!

The only lorries I'm interested in seeing are ones like this

What I'd like to know is why that was being transported by road insted of rail...Considering that it was after the damage on it was repaired!

Now, we recently saw another Class 43 (A GNER one too, IIRC) making it's own way along the line, so sending this one by road doesn't really make a lot of sense to me...

BTW: Rofl at the "heavy haulage" irony...Considering that Class 43s are designed to pull over 200 ton of train, seeing an HGV capable of carrying one is quite amusing!

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Note: This is being posted outside of topic as David decided to lock the original one, so I couldn't reply there. Dropped it here insted as it's traction related. )

 

[Donny Dave]

Hail All! What I'd like to know is why that was being transported by road insted of rail...Considering that it was after the damage on it was repaired!

Now, we recently saw another Class 43 (A GNER one too, IIRC) making it's own way along the line, so sending this one by road doesn't really make a lot of sense to me...

It was probably cheaper to send it by road....

BTW: Rofl at the "heavy haulage" irony...Considering that Class 43s are designed to pull over 200 ton of train, seeing an HGV capable of carrying one is quite amusing!

Not really. A class 43 weighs 66 tons (IIRC), and that's lighter than some loads I've seen being taken around the country

Allelys do a lot of rail transportation work, including continental work, as can be seen here

Note: This is being posted outside of topic as David decided to lock the original one, so I couldn't reply there. Dropped it here insted as it's traction related. )

I locked it because a few people were starting to get arguementative, so I put a stop to it....