These streets are a piece of cake for this driver.... you orta see him drive down the allelys 😂🏴 plus he gets the train there quicker than if it was on rails
Years ago the guy steering the back wheels would have been standing on the back of the trailer operating a manual steering wheel directly connected to the wheels. It would have been a tough job. Nowadays it's all electronics and advanced hydraulic systems. Easy peasy.
I wonder how much that operation cost. It wouldn't have been cheap. Probably many thousands of pounds. Might have been more cost-effective to just leave it stranded until the bridge got fixed.
The train had been isolated from the main rail network by track damage, Allelys were bypassing the damaged track and returning the train to the network.
There wasn't a fire on Barmouth Bridge at all. The carriages had to be moved via road from Barmouth due to rolling stock shortage following serious trackbed ballast wash out further along the coast at Towyn after a storm in early January 2014.
Top tip for those people who spent more time writing "why take them by road???!!" than reading the sub-100 word explanation about why they were taken by road; try reading the explanation about why they were taken by road.
Reinforced paving slabs, interesting. I think other councils should find where they are made because there's loads around that get broken by cars mounting the pavements all over the place.
Learn to drive then, I'm one of the locals who get coaches and /or double deckers round there all the time no problems,( until people like you come over)
Are we mad? No don’t answer that. I know the answer. Ever thought about putting the train on a railway line to Barmouth? Oh I see it’s cheaper to put it on a wagon!!! This in a country that invented railways. We are screwed.
chorleyjeff Actually NO I didn’t know the line was blocked. Even so this is the sort of thing we would do. Only last week for example on the A66 at Hartburn on the outskirts of Stockton on Tees n abnormal load wagon was carrying a railway carriage and there was nothing wrong with the railway line running from Darlington to Teesside. So why on Earth a railway carriage was on the A66 is beyond me.
