[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, but that's Catch-22 again. > (a) We can't use rail-mounted cranes because they won't go under the > bridges. > (b) We don't build cranes which can go under the bridges because > rail-mounted cranes are never used these days.
I suspect that the problems is that rail-mounted cranes would be so specialised and so rarely used that the rail companies don't reckon it's worth investing in new ones compared to the cost of hiring in non-rail machinery on the odd occasion that you need it - even when that means building an access road. As it happens, a rail-mounted crane would have been very useful twice within the last few months, but before that it could have been sitting idle in a siding for a couple of years. Martin
