On 6 Feb 2009, at 10:06, Neil Arlidge wrote: > Well he takes some good pictures. I stumbled across them while > trying to > find out exactly how many snow ploughs and rotary snow blowers > Network Rail > now have (they don't seem to know, or have "lost" them in tucked away > sidings.) It is all very well having (very) minature snow ploughs on > Sprinters. It would appear there are 20 or so ploughs constructed > on old > steam loco tenders and 12 or so constructed on old Class 40 diesel > bogies. > Plus some new rotary snow blowers.
Yes they are good snaps. They also took me even further back, in what's left of my mind, to the snows of '62/3 when I was at school in Faversham. Ashford works turned out one of their works shunters - a C class 0-6-0, attached a snow plough to it and parked it for some time in the old MPD at Faversham. It was a novelty to us as the Kent Coast line had been electrified in 1959. The idea that this Victorian bit of technology was going to help keep the shiny new electric trains running seemed funny even then. Baz [More or less snowed in, but when you work from home, where's the fun in that?]
