Ruritanian Railways - 2012
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garrymartin
My Family,Railways, Beer and the Seaside
It gives the whole area a much "softer" look if you get my meaning. Much better
Zerogee
Clencher's Bogleman
yb281 said:I had heard that he's fond of a Brazilian.whatlep said:yb281 said:Oooohhhh smart!
A good place for the Ruritanian women's volley ball team to practice I'd have thought?
Prince Rudolf has invited the Swedish and Brazilian teams to visit....
Well, I guess Ruritania is a little small to have a Landing Strip!
But does Prince Rudolf have a Prince Albert....?
Jon.
Like the moon? Wax and wane?yb281 said:I had heard that he's fond of a Brazilian.whatlep said:yb281 said:Oooohhhh smart!
A good place for the Ruritanian women's volley ball team to practice I'd have thought?
Prince Rudolf has invited the Swedish and Brazilian teams to visit....
playmofire
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Ruritania becomes a still more green and pleasant land.
jameshilton
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With the import of English turf, will we see the import of any English ballast to finish the station and parcels depot off?
CoggesRailway
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Very good mate, a really good match for the exsisting grass making it look very real
jameshilton
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whatlep said:It's on my list of things to think about. Trouble is that if I star on one area I'll have to do the lot and that's a real problem in some parts of the line. Chances are that invisible ballast will continue to work fine!
May I make a suggestion? Why not install a 'cattle grid' or some such device on the perimeter or shunt limit for the top station - and then ballast with some imported English finest up to that? It means the top station, where it looks like it's possible, will have a great finish for photos, and gets you out of doing it everywhere - and the excuse can be that the Railway is trialing some of the suspected inferior, but cheaper, English ballast over the preferred, but expensive invisible ballast - which is worth more to the country when exported!
whatlep
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Ruritanian Railways regrets to announce the cessation of services on its international lines for the foreseeable future.
All photographs from today. Those who've asked why the line doesn't cross the brook or use (visible) ballast will understand why after viewing this lot.
5.47pm
6.46pm
At this point it became clear that the planks supporting the lower station had parted company from their supports and were floating. This was very bad news. If the water continues to rise, the planks and track must eventually run out of flexibility and fail catastrophically. The only solution was to try to weight everything down. So, several bags of hard core later....
7pm
As I write (8.45pm) the water appears to have peaked and it has stopped raining for about an hour. Once the water goes down, it will be time to shift the silt, find out what foundations remain in place and think what to do next.
Ruritanian Railways apologises to all passengers and freight customers for what is likley to be a lengthy interruption of service.
All photographs from today. Those who've asked why the line doesn't cross the brook or use (visible) ballast will understand why after viewing this lot.
5.47pm
6.46pm
At this point it became clear that the planks supporting the lower station had parted company from their supports and were floating. This was very bad news. If the water continues to rise, the planks and track must eventually run out of flexibility and fail catastrophically. The only solution was to try to weight everything down. So, several bags of hard core later....
7pm
As I write (8.45pm) the water appears to have peaked and it has stopped raining for about an hour. Once the water goes down, it will be time to shift the silt, find out what foundations remain in place and think what to do next.
Ruritanian Railways apologises to all passengers and freight customers for what is likley to be a lengthy interruption of service.
flyingsignalman
Narrow Gauge railways, Garden railways, Signalling
.......and I thought we were having problems at work!
I hope the damage is not too great.
Perhaps a deviation around the new reservoir is needed!
I hope the damage is not too great.
Perhaps a deviation around the new reservoir is needed!
playmofire
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I'm sure all Ruritarian Railways passengers and freight customers understand the difficult position in which the railway finds itself and express their hopes that it will be possible to return to the normal excellent standard of service in due course.
(You really do have a major problem there, but I'm sure you'll meet the challenge [that's the name nowadays for problems] and come up with an elegant and effective answer.)
(You really do have a major problem there, but I'm sure you'll meet the challenge [that's the name nowadays for problems] and come up with an elegant and effective answer.)
jameshilton
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It does seem rather hopeless now, I'm sure Peter! Retire to the indoor line and watch a few mallets and enjoy a bottle of real ale - whilst musing over possible solutions. It does seem like your brook has flooded a LOT in the past few years! Drought?! Hardly!
whatlep
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You've just convinced me to leave Pootank Pass EXACTLY as it is!mmts said:
Anyway, the water had peaked when I posted at 8.45. This is how things looked at 9.15pm:
Close up of Polapiko station area. Silt everywhere, but the important thing is that the hard core sacks seem to have kept the line on its foundations. That foot crossing was over an inch above the concrete slab before I applied the weights. As far as I can tell only one support failed completely and I have pushed the line back into place at that point by applying a heavy weight directly. In other words, I stood on it....
You may not believe this, but the receding water left this smiley face behind on one of the slabs I used as a weight. Nature is a perverse bugger....
Tomorrow is another day.....
