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Spot on Matt!
Sounds like an incredible system:
By 1898, in peacetime, the RAR's narrow gauge was carrying 2,000 tons per day excluding coal. There were 700 wagons and 3,200 passenger miles per day were operated. These figures are far in excess of those on any British narrow gauge railway before or since.
The zenith came in the First World War when the Arsenal network reached 147 miles of line in its two square miles, the most complex and dense system in British railway history. Seventy miles were available to the 18" operations and a considerable proportion of this were mixed gauge. During WW1 1,000,000 wagons were exchanged with the main line and 12,000,000 standard gauge wagon movements were recorded internally. Narrow gauge figures for wagon movements are not recorded but would be very much in excess of the standard gauge figure, possibly four times greater.
During WW1 the RAR worked an eight day week with most staff working overtime in excess of their 12 hour shifts. The locomotive department alone employed 633 men. The Arsenal operating some 50 standard gauge and 74 narrow gauge locomotives.
I've got an article about it somewhere and seem to recall that they had different classes of passenger accommodation, including a lovely curvy roofed (like the FfR van) inspection saloon that'd make a lovely model in 7/8ths.
I was born in Woolwich too...
Anyway, over to you again Matt...
Sounds like an incredible system:
By 1898, in peacetime, the RAR's narrow gauge was carrying 2,000 tons per day excluding coal. There were 700 wagons and 3,200 passenger miles per day were operated. These figures are far in excess of those on any British narrow gauge railway before or since.
The zenith came in the First World War when the Arsenal network reached 147 miles of line in its two square miles, the most complex and dense system in British railway history. Seventy miles were available to the 18" operations and a considerable proportion of this were mixed gauge. During WW1 1,000,000 wagons were exchanged with the main line and 12,000,000 standard gauge wagon movements were recorded internally. Narrow gauge figures for wagon movements are not recorded but would be very much in excess of the standard gauge figure, possibly four times greater.
During WW1 the RAR worked an eight day week with most staff working overtime in excess of their 12 hour shifts. The locomotive department alone employed 633 men. The Arsenal operating some 50 standard gauge and 74 narrow gauge locomotives.
I've got an article about it somewhere and seem to recall that they had different classes of passenger accommodation, including a lovely curvy roofed (like the FfR van) inspection saloon that'd make a lovely model in 7/8ths.
I was born in Woolwich too...
Anyway, over to you again Matt...
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