Train breaks down due to 'high pollen count'

[Riley Blue]

Trains are not my 'thing' but as this is a local story can anyone expand on what's written?

N.B. The Derbyshire Times is not always the most accurate of news sources...

https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/transport/i...

[nc107]

Coolant radiator matrix blocked with pollen and engine tripped out on over temperature. Not all that uncommon on DMU's especially if the trackside foliage has not been cut back and the radiator matrix not cleaned thoroughly.

[Riley Blue]

If it's not leaves or wrong snow on the line it's pollen in the air...

[Simpo Two]

So why don't cars break down when the pollen count is high? They have radiator matrices too...

[Krikkit]

Simpo Two said:

So why don't cars break down when the pollen count is high? They have radiator matrices too...

Drive through overgrown bits of hedgerow for hundreds of miles you might find out...

[Simpo Two]

Through or past?

[loskie]

In my agri student days I remember a combine overheating as full of ladybirds

[mac96]

loskie said:

In my agri student days I remember a combine overheating as full of ladybirds

Is this another version of your hovercraft being full of eels?

[loskie]

I think you'll find it's squid.


Or are you squidding?

[mac96]

loskie said:

I think you'll find it's squid.


Or are you squidding?

[CharlieH89]

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/train-cancell...

[motomk]

Surely WADA will allow the train to take Antihistamines? Might even make it run faster!

[Uggers]

loskie said:

In my agri student days I remember a combine overheating as full of ladybirds

We had this in Norfolk whilst holidaying early nineties. The radiator on the car became blocked with Ladybirds. There were so many around the kerbside were red with the things.

[Ian Geary]

Uggers said:

We had this in Norfolk whilst holidaying early nineties. The radiator on the car became blocked with Ladybirds. There were so many around the kerbside were red with the things.

So that's what the spider in the wing mirror is for..ladybird clearance.

Obviously need a bigger spider

[Yertis]

Would this pollen thing be the reason why, for the first time I can remember, a team has gone along the cuttings near my house and trimmed down to nothing all the bushes and shrubs? It looks a million percent better for it.

[Southerner]

Yertis said:

Would this pollen thing be the reason why, for the first time I can remember, a team has gone along the cuttings near my house and trimmed down to nothing all the bushes and shrubs? It looks a million percent better for it.

Might be, they normally do that to stop that other nature-related problem, leaves on the line!