Thanks for your reply, Driffield to Ashford in Kent, that's a long one too, I was talking to some lads who were working on the line where i live in east Durham a few months ago and they were saying they travel all over the country up to Scotland and down south on the third rail lines etc, but they drive in their vans.I wonder if track machine drivers have to have a similar route knowledge to regular train drivers or whether it has to cover even more routes.
I didn't know that, i hadn't even considered it, thank you.
That sounds like some kind of psychological torture driving at that speed over that distance, can you imagine doing it in a car, no wonder they returned it by road.
I don't know, i've just thought of them as a tool to do a job.
That's true, I would hope so anyway.