Promenade - Megathread

[Omobono]

I think the big problem they will be facing  is the huge gap on the internal part in the rail ,  this will allow the  existing  much thinner  original  tram wheels  to move considerably  , and we may find different wheels  have to be fitted which  defeats the principal of running a historic Victorian railway , I cant believe there bringing a UK firm to reface and clean the rails , and at significant cost which they will never recover ,

[0bserver]

7 hours ago, Annoymouse said:

But unless the rails are used continuously they will go rusty and pitted again, so what is the point? The clippity clop of horses hooves on tarmac are louder than the ring that sounds off the rails. 

365 day a year horse trams it is then! 😂

[Annoymouse]

7 minutes ago, Omobono said:

I cant believe there bringing a UK firm to reface and clean the rails , and at significant cost which they will never recover ,

You’d think sandblasting or similar to remove the rust would be enough. 

[The Phantom]

Gold is pretty un-reactive.  I think the solution is clearly to make some golden rail covers for the winter. 

Where do I submit my eye-watering consultancy invoice again?

[Non-Believer]

8 hours ago, Annoymouse said:

But unless the rails are used continuously they will go rusty and pitted again, so what is the point? The clippity clop of horses hooves on tarmac are louder than the ring that sounds off the rails. 

Do they clean and reface the rails of the MER after its winter closedown? Do they hell, the action of the trams does it when they restart for the new season. Steam railway presumably the same?

[Passing Time]

59 minutes ago, Annoymouse said:

You’d think sandblasting or similar to remove the rust would be enough. 

Who'd do that? if DoI were involved then half the bloody concrete would get blasted away...

[Dave Hedgehog]

5 minutes ago, Passing Time said:

Who'd do that? if DoI were involved then half the bloody concrete would get blasted away...

You're saying that like losing the concrete would be a bad thing.

[0bserver]

8 minutes ago, Passing Time said:

Who'd do that? if DoI were involved then half the bloody concrete would get blasted away...

 

3 minutes ago, Dave Hedgehog said:

You're saying that like losing the concrete would be a bad thing.

Half the concrete will be gone after a decent storm so it's only pre-empting the inevitable. 

[quilp]

I wonder how that red stuff's gonna be after 500,000 steel-shoed hoof-beats, on top of the carriage vibration. 

[Kopek]

3 hours ago, quilp said:

steel-shoed hoof-beats

That's the latest dance craze?

 think the Horses trot along on tarmac. Probably M&S tarmac!

[finlo]

I saw an actual tram that appeared to be in service earlier opposite the Empress.

[The Old Git]

I've been stuck in queues behind a tram twice this week so far. Not necessarily the trams fault, just the useless tossers who can't pass one. 

[Boris Johnson]

1 hour ago, The Old Git said:

I've been stuck in queues behind a tram twice this week so far. Not necessarily the trams fault, just the useless tossers who can't pass one. 

To be fair to tossers, there is now much less room to pass a tram as the distance between the 2 tracks is much bigger than it was before.

[Two-lane]

1 minute ago, Boris Johnson said:

To be fair to tossers, there is now much less room to pass a tram as the distance between the 2 tracks is much bigger than it was before.

... to allow the use of a battery-powered light railway system.

[ellanvannin2010]

6 minutes ago, Boris Johnson said:

To be fair to tossers, there is now much less room to pass a tram as the distance between the 2 tracks is much bigger than it was before.

According to the DOI there is more room now to pass, although you are correct about the spacing between the two tracks, it is about 30cm more gap.

https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/more-space-for-trams-and-traffic-insists-doi-228434