No. Once the leaves have been removed, they should not be replaced.
(People sometimes laugh at "leaves on the line" but it's a serious issue. Some years ago a passenger train in south-east England skidded for over two miles on leaf mush before stopping. Fortunately it didn't hit anything. And the Rail Accident Investigation people have very recently published their report on a crash at Salisbury for which leaves were partially responsible: https://tinyurl.com/bdm2c42a ).
Prolonging this tangent, the problem with leaves is exacerbated by at least two things, to wit, the unrestricted growth of lineside foliage (it used to be cut back severely), and the lighter weight of modern trains.
The problem with leaves is that they will fall on the line, and a train will go over them, crushing then to the track. Trains are reasonably heavy (doh) and crush them badly, and crushed carbon tends to turn into graphite - which is a lubricant.
That process - however completely done - causes slipperly tracks.
Prolonging this tangent further, Tom Rolt makes that very point in his wonderful book Railway Adventure, about the first two years of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway under preservation. The typical Welsh *soft day* made the rails slippery, a good downpour washed them clean.
@Baptist Trainfan is quite right - there are far fewer locomotive-hauled trains in these End Times.
Not a headline, but a sentence on the BBC website ending an article on things that could impinge the next US presidential election: "We are in truly unprecedented territory, and even the best legal brains in the country are scratching their heads."
Not a headline, but a sentence on the BBC website ending an article on things that could impinge the next US presidential election: "We are in truly unprecedented territory, and even the best legal brains in the country are scratching their heads."
Interesting anatomical comment!
The problems journalists have when they talk in clichés!
Not sure if those dogs were that concerned if they attacked someone's pooch. And what if they had attacked in private? But let's put an end to an overload of silly puns on this.
Because look, here's a new one from the Daily Mail, clearly about extraterrestrials:
Just Stop Oil protestors spared from road obstruction charges - as police arrested them while the green man was showing
A local newspaper in southern Ontario reports: A 33-year-old man was arrested and charged with mischief under $5,000 and public nudity. They go on to describe some display cases that had been damaged, but unfortunately, that was all they felt able to report. The incident occurred in a shopping mall.
From the ever-dependable "Wales Online: "The little-known magical Santa's grotto on the edge of the woods that parents are raving about". How can folk rave about it if they don't know about it?
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So said leaves will fall more gently?
(People sometimes laugh at "leaves on the line" but it's a serious issue. Some years ago a passenger train in south-east England skidded for over two miles on leaf mush before stopping. Fortunately it didn't hit anything. And the Rail Accident Investigation people have very recently published their report on a crash at Salisbury for which leaves were partially responsible: https://tinyurl.com/bdm2c42a ).
Steam engines had two advantages: not only were they heavy but they threw out hot cinders which burned the vegetation (sometimes too much so!)
That process - however completely done - causes slipperly tracks.
@Baptist Trainfan is quite right - there are far fewer locomotive-hauled trains in these End Times.
And I too was thinking of Rolt's book.
Interesting anatomical comment!
(The Metro)
The problems journalists have when they talk in clichés!
New allegations against Combs
I'm so glad I keep my head shaved.
Do you have enough to need shaving!
What about the rest of the bike?
Obviously shooting dead a dog owner merits no more than a suspended sentence.
Also, why did the police shoot the poor dogs in the first place?
Because look, here's a new one from the Daily Mail, clearly about extraterrestrials:
Couple bragged about killing the victim several times
I guess there is reincarnation after all, then.
(BTW: Manatees Wiki entry)
Perhaps they were finally able to restatees.
I'll get me own coat.
Other modes of cooking were also available.
Caught when trying to find out what those dastardly parsnips were up to?
🤢🤮
No thanks...
Easy to chew though - no backbone.
I don't need the ship; lead me to that desert!
Murder suspect faces second death penalty for alleged killing of cell mate
You only live twice.