In message <HpSdnaXSZ_O3Wx3VnZ2dnUVZ8tHinZ2d@bt.com>, at 17:35:15 on
Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Peter Masson <peter.masson1@> remarked:
>On one famous occasion there was a possession on the ECML. It was given up
>for the sleepers, but the OHLE could not be re-energised. So the sleepers
>left Euston formed with an electric loco (to Willesden), 16 coaches, a
>second electric loco (to Edinburgh/Glasgow), and two 67s (to Peterborough).
>What I don't know is how they squared the Euston platform length issue on
>that occasion.
Why can't they run two shorter trains as a "flight", the way they used
to run a flight of two Eurostars from Waterloo?
--
Roland Perry