Quote Originally Posted by Ralphxyz View Post
That had to be a planned demolition, to have the flames evenly spread across the whole expanse has to be a man made fire. Does seem a shame!

Ralph
maybe not planned, but rather the effect of a redhot bearing dropping molten steel droplets as the carriage traveled along the track. all it needed to do was contact the soaked timbers and start and it would proceed fairly evenly (seen it happen in the past with scrub fires along tracks started by a collapsed axle bearing.(hot box failure))