Re: What size are the Channel tunnel shuttles?

In article <de8924984f.michaelbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael Bell <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Everybody says that the Channel tunnel shuttle vehicles are "the
largest railway vehicles ever built" (or are they simply "the largest
railway vehicles ever built on standard gauge"?), and seeing they can
take the largest vehicles allowable on the roads they have to be BIG,
but searching through Google pulls up everything except actual
MEASUREMENTS. Does anybody know?

I'd suspect the rail-bourne transporters used by the Russians and
the Americans to move space vehicles from assembly hall to launch
pad are rather larger. The Saturn V, N1 and Energya transporters
were not small.

There have been some pretty big rail-bourne guns in the past, too.
Big enough to need breaking down for transport, even on Russian-
gauge lines.

"Everybody", in this case, is likely to be wrong.

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)
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