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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Highland Handlebar on July 18, 2021, 10:45:32 PM

Title: Ebay howlers again
Post by: Highland Handlebar on July 18, 2021, 10:45:32 PM
I notices a listing on eBay for a graham farish restraint car. Obviously bound for bond street
Title: Re: Ebay howlers again
Post by: Gordon on July 18, 2021, 11:37:29 PM
A 'restraint car' is active most days in Switzerland. It is know as the 'jail train'.

We've chatted about it before over on the Continental N Gauge sub board.

I have seen it many times.

As you can see (by the position I was standing and the blur) a few years ago it caught me by surprise at Killwangen-Spreitenbach near Zurich, back then it was powered by an SBB RBe540 railcar  (more recently powered by an SBB Re4/4II (Re420) electric loco

(https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/105/704-220121110544-1050821363.jpeg)