HelmutX Posted Sunday at 07:21 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:21 PM https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/horse-tram-tracks-will-need-grinding-after-corroding-while-in-storage/ And when and how can these dopey ijits be fired???! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted Sunday at 07:39 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:39 PM 16 minutes ago, HelmutX said: https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/horse-tram-tracks-will-need-grinding-after-corroding-while-in-storage/ And when and how can these dopey ijits be fired???! Beggars belief that it took a MHK's question to find them and then to realise they were not being stored in an appropriate way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shake me up Judy Posted Sunday at 07:45 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:45 PM Left to the elements by the look of it. Should've been greased and wrapped in hessian or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted Sunday at 07:49 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:49 PM They have plenty of indoor places to store them but ultimately they are designed to live outdoors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted Sunday at 07:49 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:49 PM 3 minutes ago, Shake me up Judy said: Left to the elements by the look of it. Should've been greased and wrapped in hessian or something. Well, you would think so, but weren't they a bargain, so who cares? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted Sunday at 07:49 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:49 PM "Talks are currently underway to relocate the tracks elsewhere..." ...I'm thinking it should likely involve the responsible DOI manager and some vaseline (or maybe no vaseline). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted Sunday at 07:50 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:50 PM Just now, finlo said: They have plenty of indoor places to store them but ultimately they are designed to live outdoors. But use keeps the rust down? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted Sunday at 07:55 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:55 PM 28 minutes ago, HelmutX said: https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/horse-tram-tracks-will-need-grinding-after-corroding-while-in-storage/ And when and how can these dopey ijits be fired???! Already discussed at some length on the Prom thread when Ashford put the question in. (I'm pointing to it as there was some useful info in there, including about the £70 K needed to clean the rest of them up). There was some scepticism that they even needed cleaning - though after 9 years on the Quay now, there may not be much of them left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted Sunday at 07:55 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:55 PM 3 minutes ago, Gladys said: But use keeps the rust down? Well the MER tracks lay fallow from October until March every year and they survive same with the steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted Sunday at 08:25 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:25 PM 23 minutes ago, Gladys said: But use keeps the rust down? It does. But if you think about it they rust away all the time. The trams just wear the rust off. Accumulated rust actually protects from further corrosion to some extent. It's all a fuss about nothing. They will last over 100 years whatever. There is so much metal in them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted Sunday at 08:29 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:29 PM Just now, Happier diner said: It does. But if you think about it they rust away all the time. The trams just wear the rust off. Accumulated rust actually protects from further corrosion to some extent. It's all a fuss about nothing. They will last over 100 years whatever. There is so much metal in them. Well, 40 years according to the reply. Yes, to an extent it is a fuss about nothing, but that it took a Keys question to find out where they were and their condition, ain't great. It is just another tack (many tacks serve the purpose of one nail) in the coffin of public trust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM One would imagine the coffin of public trust would require a crane (and a big one at that) with all the tacks and nails it is carrying by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM Has it not been a roundabout way of keeping the spotlight on the fact that this rail stock has been purchased but not used ie maintaining the pressure about the Prom not being to the spec. that was agreed and promised. The DOI don't have a great record of storage of vehicles and equipment anyway, their depots are full of stuff rusting away in the elements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Buggane Posted Sunday at 08:41 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:41 PM I do hope that you are not referring to the fleet of mini buses 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadAsHell Posted Sunday at 08:45 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:45 PM 2 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: Has it not been a roundabout way of keeping the spotlight on the fact that this rail stock has been purchased but not used ie maintaining the pressure about the Prom not being to the spec. that was agreed and promised. The DOI don't have a great record of storage of vehicles and equipment anyway, their depots are full of stuff rusting away in the elements. The yard doesn't appear to match planning either. Unless rail store means left to the elements. https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/doi-plans-yard-changes-for-prom-refurb/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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