….but not in the UK. They’re using antique rolling stock to clear global warming off of the tracks over in southern Sweden:

The trains, old DA locomotives normally resident in the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle in northern Sweden, have been dusted off and put back into service to clear the tracks of snow between Mjölby and Alvesta in southern Sweden.

Furthermore a 100-year-old snowplough is in place alongside the tracks in nearby Nässjö, ready to be called into action if needed.

“These are made of stern stuff which can take the winter and we are very happy to be able to help to keep the railways running,” said Henrik Reuterdahl at the museum.

The two locomotives were constructed in the middle of the 1950s and are currently equipped with a heavy duty snowplough in order to perform their task.

Can you imagine how many ‘elfnsafety regulations this would slam into in the UK? It’d just the sort of off-the-wall stunt you could imagine Boris trying though, for the the pure oddness of the idea. Unfortunately that  would just give cheap ammunition to the BBC/Labour, who would inevitably blame the “cuts” which are responsible for all of the woes of today even though they don’t start until April. You know, the ones which will take us all back to the dark days of 2006 spending levels when libraries were forced to open and the dead were left buried.

Bring back the Mallard and the Flying Scotsman!