--- In [email protected], "sean neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there any explabe of railroad cars being carried on canal boats?
> >
> Wouldn't be possible on UK narrow canals because of the gauge, and I
> can't ever see it being routine because of the tare weight of the
> vehicles which would have to be craned on, and could travel faster
on
> the parallel railway.
I have a vague memory, which I could probably check up on if anybody's
interested, that while the GWR was at an early stage of its
construction, its first locomotives were brough by barge of the Grand
Junction and craned onto the railway at somewhere like Hayes &
Harlington or West Drayton.
--
Mike Stevens - in London
nb Felis Catus III - at Tadpole Bridge
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