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Unread 03-10-2010, 00:54   #5
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Originally Posted by Thomas Ralph View Post
6 22K carriages would be too long for the platform at Rathdrum and several of the off-side platforms on the route.
Has IE failed to award the Selective Door Opening tender? (Although it took from the 27th of January until last week to get 22037 on the road to a repairer, so who can guess at the reasons for glacial progress, not least given possible additional scrutiny arising from procurement failings in the recent past)

Would it be so bad to just stop serving Rathdrum rather than putting undersized trains on the line, notwithstanding the fact that the loop's presence there makes stopping convenient? Or are the other offside platforms elsewhere similarly difficult to extend as Rathdrum's?
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