MDLR:66602 wrote:I'd say Canterbury, as they may have used a NG railway at York when they did the last big restoration folowing the fire..................
MDLR has it!
Tooting Broadway, York and Tung have all used 2' gauge railways.
I told you the clues were all in the photographs or before your very eyes: the Darj is 2'
dead which was there as a clue; Tooting and Tung both use the roundel, but that was a dead end: Tooting used a 2' contractors railway when the 1926 extension was built (as did most of the non CCE&H bits of the northern when the CSLR tunnels were enlarged.) You were then left with deciding between York (Ebor) and Canterbury (Cantuar) - look at my location - as I type this I'm looking out of my window across the cathedral precincts to Bell Harry.
If anyone's got a copy of (I think) 'Narrow Gauge Story' by Preston/Powell Hendry there is a short article in there about the contractors railway inside the Minster at York - up one of the transepts, rather than the nave. I can just about remember it as a nipper; so I don't think it was used after the last fire.
Cantuar is the odd one out - there may be a 16mm layout on top of the tower one day!
