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Re: The end of RML 2557

I don`t ever recall seeing a bus moved in a garage by putting a chain around the platform pole. It only takes five guys to push an empty RM on level ground and that`s how I`ve seen incapacitated buses moved in garages.

It was quite usual for dead RM`s being made ready for scrap collection to be pulled out of parking bays at Bus Sales by using a chain attached to the towing eye of an MD and the platform pole of an RM. Admittedly some of those RM`s had seized brakes but there was very little strength in the platform pole and these bent readily. On the basis of what I`ve seen, I would never advise any attempt to drag an RM via the platform pole.