Emergency road/rail vehicles

[simontaylor484]

Good morning 

 

I was going to ask this wuestion in the Stonehaven thread but they all seem to be locked.

 

I was watching you tube the other day and came across this and wondered if there were any of these in this country 

i know there are various foad/rail vehicles out there. I seem to recall there was a landrover done at some time for the severn tunnels but cant be sure

[Arun Sharma]

London Transport used to have a couple of road-rail Unimogs

[ColinK]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. Different from the UK where all the road/rail vehicles I’ve seen use the road wheels for traction while on the railway.

[Wickham Green too]

10 hours ago, ColinK said:

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. Different from the UK where all the road/rail vehicles I’ve seen use the road wheels for traction while on the railway.

Not so easy when the rails are only a metre apart !

[John Harris]

Most UK road/rail vehicles are pictured here, I suspect there are few, if any, 'first responder' vehicles of this type in the UK.  Few lines in the UK are totally inaccessible from the road or via a field.

 

jh

[Fat Controller]

19 minutes ago, John Harris said:

Most UK road/rail vehicles are pictured here, I suspect there are few, if any, 'first responder' vehicles of this type in the UK.  Few lines in the UK are totally inaccessible from the road or via a field.

 

jh

I thought Avon Fire and Rescue had a road-rail Unimog-type vehicle, based at Severn Beach? It was introduced to supplement the then emergency train on the Welsh side.

[ColinK]

20 hours ago, Arun Sharma said:

London Transport used to have a couple of road-rail Unimogs

 

One I photographed in 1983.

 

[keefer]

I think that's one of the track 'hoovers' with the debris deposited in the trailer behind, ISTR using a large flexible hose between the tractor unit and trailer.

[astropsidings]

Here’s a BRUFF doing a bit of shunting.

 

On 22-6-88 the Bescot trip, 6V03, derailed during shunting at Banbury (as an aside, in the process, demolishing the last remaining GWR triple disc ground signal at Banbury, the others being of LMR origin). The BRUFF was used in clearing up.

[andye]

17 hours ago, astropsidings said:

Here’s a BRUFF doing a bit of shunting.

 

On 22-6-88 the Bescot trip, 6V03, derailed during shunting at Banbury (as an aside, in the process, demolishing the last remaining GWR triple disc ground signal at Banbury, the others being of LMR origin). The BRUFF was used in clearing up.

 

What a fabulous picture, in all the years I search on line for pictures of bruffs and recovery vehicles, I think this is the first I have seen of a bruff moving a rail vehicle! 

[TheQ]

Right from the earliest days of the Land rovers there were road /rail versions,

many models are available..

a favourite party trick was towing trains..

Edited September 29, 2020 by TheQ

[Steven B]

Network Rail provided South Wales Fire and Rescue with a Unimog U1650 and a Volvo FL6.

Avonmouth have a Renult based unit (N842 HFB).

All in Network Rail yellow!

 

Steven.

[ruggedpeak]

13 hours ago, TheQ said:

Right from the earliest days of the Land rovers there were road /rail versions,

 

That is based upon an ex-military 127 Rapier support vehicle, the square rear tub had a large rectangular hood and held spare Rapier anti-aircraft missles.