55 track mi treated in one run; train of eight vehicles, excluding locomotive and brake van; vehicles consist of six 14-ton tank cars having combined capacity of 15,000 gal for carrying weed killing solution; two vans, one carrying main pumping and spraying equipment and workshop, and other arranged as living accommodation for train crew. (See also Engineering v 179 n 4656 Apr 22 1955 p 509-10; Engineer v 199 n 5178 Apr 22 1955 p 599-600)
Weed-killing train for British railways
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 102 , n 18
1955
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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