More on the third rail

HERE'S a postscript to my letter which you kindly published in the Observer on December 12 (Ice, Snow and the Third Rail).
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Dec 2010, 10:00 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 21:37 BST

Radio 4’s You and Yours reported on Friday December 17 that ScotRail deploys trains with “skirts” and engine mounted hot air blowers to keep services in operation-even towards the far north.

My tentative suggestion regarding heating and clearing the rails in this way seems to be an established technology there.

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A friend in Glasgow confirms that this has all been heavily featured in the local press recently.

I don’t think it involves a third rail but it is the same working (in the sense that it does work) principle.

I would have thought that anything doing so well in Scotland should be a bit of a “shoe in” for the South East’s perennial problem.

I can’t even see that it needs to cost that much-even for only intermittent usage (although the need is more like constant at the moment).

Does the will, concern and imagination to actually do something about this exist though?

DAVE WALSH

Rotherfield Avenue

Bexhill

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