Britain's Weirdest Railways
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LTfan said:
David (LTFAN) many thanks for that, this following link gave me exactly what I was looking for. After you watcehd all the getter on and offers, the ride passed over exactly some of the locations that I remembered clambering over as a young one. It also gave a good idea of how the thing worked with the speed being faster when the coils were further apart and slower for stations when closer. It surprises me that this system has never cought on in the Modern Light Metro situation, probably the Technology has been forgotten after all these years. This is the link that I watched, you may need to download the latest Adobe Flash Viewer to watch it, but the Pathe Site promted and did all that for me:-
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Enjoy.
JonD
Note for some unknown reason the full link does not appear to work, so suggest that you copy and paste it into you Browser Address Line if it does not.
Think I may have to look this book out.
If you are into weird try this one The George bennie railplane its worth a google.
I Like the model............... looks about G scale to me!
Some pics of the real prototype...........how much steel did that use????
If you are into weird try this one The George bennie railplane its worth a google.
I Like the model............... looks about G scale to me!
Some pics of the real prototype...........how much steel did that use????
I think that I have found another, this time in Portugal with a British railway financial venture. The Larmanjat Monorail Lines of which there were two actually built in Portugal. 1 around Lisbon the other called the Torres Vedras Lines. These both only lasted around 2 years or so before closing amidst Financial and farcical operating scandals. What were these lines, no you could not make this one up. They were soewhat similar to the Indian one I mentioned in my thread on the Patiala Steam tramway, but there were 2 outside sets of wheel running on WOODEN yes WOODEN planks. The locomotives looked to be fairly convetional in design, rather than the Indian Patiala Steam tramway ones. The creator of this appears to have been French. More on this can be found in W.J.K Davies 'Narrow gauge rails of portugal PP 264. A great read if you love NG Railways. ISBN 1 871980 35 6.
JonD
JonD
