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Old 11th November 2013, 16:55
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Originally Posted by keith morgan View Post
One thing thing we noticed, after the Sandite train has run through, the next fast passenger train takes on a different sound?
Whereas the Water Canon blasts the railhead with a jet of high pressure water in order to clear off the contaminant, the Sandite train lays a coating of grit in an adhesive liquid. So instead of having a steel wheel in contact with a steel rail, there is now a slightly crunchy layer in between....for a little while.
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