southernyoshi
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Moderator note: Split from
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ecml-south-disruption-ole-down-09-12.259086
Been a lot of these, especially on the ECML, it's got me wondering - now please remember I am just a layman passenger, so this is almost certainly a deeply stupid question, please don't jump on me... but as the windy, wet, drastically variable weather island that we are, why do we even use overhead lines?
There must be a strong technical reason, because I'd have thought third rail would be hugely more reliable for us, to the point where installing it everywhere (except HS1) would be desirable.
There must be a good reason why we don't, why it never escaped the south & Merseyside, I'd be interested to know why overhead is better.
Thank you
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ecml-south-disruption-ole-down-09-12.259086
Been a lot of these, especially on the ECML, it's got me wondering - now please remember I am just a layman passenger, so this is almost certainly a deeply stupid question, please don't jump on me... but as the windy, wet, drastically variable weather island that we are, why do we even use overhead lines?
There must be a strong technical reason, because I'd have thought third rail would be hugely more reliable for us, to the point where installing it everywhere (except HS1) would be desirable.
There must be a good reason why we don't, why it never escaped the south & Merseyside, I'd be interested to know why overhead is better.
Thank you