Peckforton Light Railway - excerpts from a running session
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DoctorM
Interests: Manifold
Superbement atmosphérique!
garrymartin
My Family,Railways, Beer and the Seaside
Lovely, a pleasure to watch !
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
Oh wow!
Those Southwoldish coaches are just fabulous - and I see that the 'down' ore train doesn't like the LGB R3 points any more than I do
I assume that is all battery power - absolutely spanking
Those Southwoldish coaches are just fabulous - and I see that the 'down' ore train doesn't like the LGB R3 points any more than I do
I assume that is all battery power - absolutely spanking
ge_rik
British narrow gauge (esp. Southwold and W&LLR)
Thanks Garry. I enjoyed making the video.
They do look Southwoldish - I was thinking that the other day as I watched a train chugging round - but they were actually based on Leek & Manifold coaches (albeit a bit shorter)Oh wow!
Those Southwoldish coaches are just fabulous - and I see that the 'down' ore train doesn't like the LGB R3 points any more than I do
Still got some R1s unfortunately - one day they will all be replaced.
Yes, I'm 100% battery now. Haven't cleaned any track with a track rubber for over two years now.I assume that is all battery power - absolutely spanking
Rik
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
Yes, I realised the were based on L&M coaches, but it's the top lights that make them look Southwold -like - England's only 3 ft railway wasn't it?
ge_rik
British narrow gauge (esp. Southwold and W&LLR)
Southwold likes to claim that it was England's only 3' gauge railway (there's a plaque on the site of Southwold Station stating this) but they seem to have forgotten that the Rye & Camber was 3' and that the Ravenglass & Eskdale was originally 3' before Bassett Lowke got his hands on it. Then, of course, some of the Ironstone railways in the Midlands were also 3' gauge, though I think at least one of them later became metre gauge.
Rik
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
I'd forgotten about Col Stephens' 3 footer at Rye, but the remains of my Ian Allan abc of Narrow Gauge Railways (of about 1961) gives the original Ratty as 2' - 9"
ge_rik
British narrow gauge (esp. Southwold and W&LLR)
There's some dispute about the original gauge - eg see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenglass_and_Eskdale_Railway
There has been dispute about the gauge. It is shown as 3 feet in records but is quoted as 2 ft 9 in (838 mm) in some books such as the ABC of Narrow Gauge Railways.[5] This figure was believed for many years until the present company discovered a sleeper from before the line closed, with spacings between holes made by track spikes confirming the gauge was the wider one. The confusion probably stems from the fact that the line was built under the condition that it was "of a gauge not less than 2' 9" "
I think the general consensus now is it was 3'.
Rik
Rhinochugger
Retired Oik
