Strange things happen at night - sleepers snore, foxes scream and Land Rovers turn into trains.
Well, not trains exactly, but when we're all tucked up in bed, some do swap their road wheels for train ones and drive along rail tracks. Not only Land Rovers but also Ford Rangers and Isuzu D-Maxes. And no, it's not a desperate way of avoiding potholes; instead, they're vehicles used by rail network operators and contractors to ferry workers, equipment and materials to often remote track locations. They do so at night because that's when the trains stop running: it allows the maintenance companies to have what's called 'track possession time.
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