Brake vans: are they still used?
Leaving Crewe for London today I noticed what looked like a ballast train crawling along in the Basford Hall Yard with a battered brake van sporting faded Dutch livery attached to the end of it
I assumed these vehicles were a thing of the past, confined only to heritage lines and model railways, so it was somewhat surprising. Do they ever venture out onto the mainline or is this a strictly within yard limits affair?
Leaving Crewe for London today I noticed what looked like a ballast train crawling along in the Basford Hall Yard with a battered brake van sporting faded Dutch livery attached to the end of it
I assumed these vehicles were a thing of the past, confined only to heritage lines and model railways, so it was somewhat surprising. Do they ever venture out onto the mainline or is this a strictly within yard limits affair?
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