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Old 30th August 2007, 17:22   #23 (permalink)
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Also I used to park my Focus in a railway car park & I'm convinced that passing trains used to throw up something from the tracks onto my car. I couldn't remove it by polishing or using sap remover.
If you are talking about the last couple of years, then no.
If you are talking about a few years ago, then yes.

The old slam door trains used to have cast iron brake blocks. So every time the brakes were applied, i.e. running into a station, the blocks would rub against the wheels, slowing the train and giving off lots of small iron fillings.
They were a right sod to get off car paint work, and I was unlucky enough to have a white car parked next to a railway line
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