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Old 22nd December 2014, 11:13
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Originally Posted by Beeyar Wunby View Post

Reliability is the issue here rather than than tractive effort - a flask train is only a few hundred tonnes but there would be a hell of a 'kerfuffle' if one ever broke down and needed assistance.

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Actually it's brake force on a flask train and you tend to see one twenty and one 37 on flasks and the consist is usually only one or two wagons unless it is a military train when it will have a coach and armed guards in the train


But back to pure class 20 train and shunting duties here is one of my favourites NOT my photo worse luck (borrowed from FB so some folk may not see this)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1117498&type=1
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