Why can't the British do this?

[networkrail1]

why can't our trains do this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHhICRPBh0&feature=related

instead of doing this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRQ3Q5bb_oM&feature=related

 

[Wyvern]

That loco is a whole lot heavier, plus it doesnt have all its works mounted underneath. Also the level crossing is tarmacced and less likely to have been undercut by the water.

 

[Dai.]

And Health and Safety.


The demons with Hi-Visibility Jackets and Clipboards probably would have frowned.

 

[4SRKT]

why carnt the the british do this

What? Spell?

 

[NightatLaira]

Hahaha!

Love it!

 

[networkrail1]

thank you for the point out my friend i have now changed it.

 

[GB]

thank you for the point out my friend i have now changed it.

Um, not quite. It should be "can't" not "carn't".

 

[Bastiaan]

Would be a good solution on the sea wall

 

[LE Greys]

I heard of one incident in 1953 where a loco on the Hunstanton branch tried to run through a flood, which put the fire out for a while until the rebuilt it by cannibalising parts of a coach. They nearly had a collision with a drifting chalet after that, imagine being derailed by a floating bungalow, very unusual.

Did you see the bloke in the hi-viz coat, who must have been soaked to the skin?

Oh yes, and the second one reminded me of an encounter with a flood in 2001 (which also happened to be a 158 ). Running at 1mph through axle-deep water that should have been in the River Frome is something I'll never forget.

 

[Fincra5]

Well the Scotrail train still made it across...

 

[TDK]

why can't our trains do this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHhICRPBh0&feature=related

instead of doing this:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRQ3Q5bb_oM&feature=related

Because the rule book says so

 

[Tom B]

I heard of one incident in 1953 where a loco on the Hunstanton branch tried to run through a flood, which put the fire out for a while until the rebuilt it by cannibalising parts of a coach. They nearly had a collision with a drifting chalet after that, imagine being derailed by a floating bungalow, very unusual.

Can you imagine the announcement?

"We are sorry but the.... ten... fifty five... service to... Hunstanton will be delayed by approximately... thirty... minutes. This is due to a chalet on the line".

 

[Matt Taylor]

They were still running in Spain in these conditions:

http://matthew-taylor.fotopic.net/p62440684.html

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

In the book 'The Badminton Line' by Kevin Robinson and David Abbott (very good Btw) there is a picture of a steam locomotive on page 40 driving through a very waterlogged cutting at Chipping Sodbury. it has water almost up to the footplate and is going so fast there even appears to be a bow wave.

Bit too much to expect a HST to do the same though, but it would be interesting to see im sure.

 

[Old Timer]

It is not done in the UK simply because the water would enter the traction motor windings through the air vents, and flood out the underfloor electrical equipment.

The sequence is taken in Argentina I believe,

North/South American locomotives tend to have all the elctrical equipment contained within the body rather than underneath so as to allow the large fuel tanks to be underslung.

It is also the case that the traction motors on some designs allow the traction unit to operate in adverse conditions such as snow/water as they units are sealed and force cooled from above.

There is also a restriction on running through moving water owing to the risk that the track formation may be damaged. In South America the track is built to take recognition that a flash rainstorm will cause may 2 or three feet of water in an hour, which will rapidly run-off without actually seeping into the formation.