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vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
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vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by infoman at 08:30, 4th October 2024
 
Network Rail are inviting travelers to vote for the name of their leaf busting machine,the names are.



    Ctrl Alt De-leaf

    Leaf-Fall Weapon

    Pulp Friction

    The Autumn Avenger

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by grahame at 08:43, 4th October 2024
 
Network Rail are inviting travelers to vote for the name of their leaf busting machine,the names are.



    Ctrl Alt De-leaf

    Leaf-Fall Weapon

    Pulp Friction

    The Autumn Avenger


https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/can-you-help-name-one-of-our-leaf-busting-trains/



Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by johnneyw at 13:09, 4th October 2024
 
The NR link lists a few of the others that didn't quite make the final 4.....pity that' Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Leaf Machiney’ wasn't included.   

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 13:42, 4th October 2024
 
Well, that's a releaf. 

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by AMLAG at 14:27, 4th October 2024
 

 Quote from NR Media and PR Contractors:-

“We use tried and tested methods for keeping trains moving through autumn as well as different techniques and new technology in some parts of the country.”

A simpler method for a start would be to re establish the 5 metres back from the cess flail strip railway standard, to at least remove the now widespread tree, bushes, buddleia and bramble etc lineside growth that increasingly comes into contact and scratches trains paintwork etc.. viz IETs on the Newquay branch as just one example.


Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by JayMac at 14:39, 4th October 2024
 
Leafy McLeaf-face?

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by Western Pathfinder at 14:43, 4th October 2024
 
That was never going to be a matter of when and if but how long before

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by johnneyw at 16:06, 4th October 2024
 
Leafy McLeaf-face?

I'd put pretty good money on the likelihood that was amongst the many suggestions made.

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by johnneyw at 16:10, 4th October 2024
 
I wooden wish to add to any tree based puns.

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:29, 4th October 2024
 
Ah!  I've just twigged what this topic is about. 

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 16:34, 4th October 2024
 

A simpler method for a start would be to re establish the 5 metres back from the cess flail strip railway standard, to at least remove the now widespread tree, bushes, buddleia and bramble etc lineside growth that increasingly comes into contact and scratches trains paintwork etc.. viz IETs on the Newquay branch as just one example.


Also on the line between Trowbridge and Melksham, and on to Chippenham: on a recent journey, I was somewhat startled at the amount of foliage which was hitting the train as we passed. 


Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by eightonedee at 19:22, 4th October 2024
 
I thought these had already been named! I have clear memories of these from my commuting days. Network Rail would "do" the North Downs line with them and park them up in platforms 4/5/6 at Reading, where they would leave the engines running, generating a lot of noise and fumes for those of us getting off or on the trains to Guildford or Waterloo.  Their pathing also meant that connections were missed at Reading due to the delay to the following (often my) train. Grr......... !

They (or rather, their cabs) were in various colours, including one in pink, but I'm pretty certain all carried names, painted on the cabsides. I regret that the names they carried were not sufficiently memorable that I now recall them.

Re: vote for your favourite rail leaf cleaner
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:31, 8th October 2024
 
They aren't just used on branch lines, then?

 
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