71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by JMORG » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:42 pm

Should use something like a Shay, quite stable and would've climbed every hill in the program.
Or (more likely) a WD Baldwin for even more chaos!

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by Big Jim » Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:43 am

Rebuild the GCR and use mamods.
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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

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Post by Big Jim » Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:17 pm

Very interesting indeed.
Thanks for posting this Tony.
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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by LNR » Fri Feb 16, 2018 10:20 pm

Thanks for posting Tony, I can't access the videos down here, so good to be able to read about some of it.
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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by JMORG » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:05 pm

Honestly, after reading that article I'm surprised they didn't go for a Sandy River 24. It's a "grand" loco and has all the stuff that Silver Lady has plus the additions of pony trucks and a much lower center of gravity!

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by Peter Butler » Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:21 pm

An extensive article included in the Feb. edition of 16mm Today which arrived in the post this morning. Haven't got round to reading it yet but covers 'behind the scenes' detail apparently.
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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by Keith S » Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:19 pm

JMORG wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:05 pm Honestly, after reading that article I'm surprised they didn't go for a Sandy River 24. It's a "grand" loco and has all the stuff that Silver Lady has plus the additions of pony trucks and a much lower center of gravity!
I agree with JMORGthat an Accucraft shay might have been the machine for the job. ALL "pony trucks"...

I once saw a video of an Accucraft shay pulling a man on a 5"gauge wagon, with little 45mm rails on the sleepers between the 5" rails. It didn't appear too bothered by the load either.

Not without historical precedent, either, there was ONE shay in he U.K. at some point or other (there's a prototype for everything)

Although a shay would have been more difficult to repair if anything had gone wrong, and at its top speed we'd still be waiting for it to get there.

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by Big Jim » Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:57 pm

The article does mention that other manufacturers engines were tried and found wanting........
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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by FWLR » Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:44 am

Lonsdaler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:10 am Disappointing that a steamer didn't get to use the viaduct, but the trestle bridge came up trumps, and the spiral looks interesting - looking forward to the last episode next week.
Has was I Phil, it would have looked brilliant steaming over that vast expense..

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by FWLR » Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:45 am

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:31 pm Considering I have not been too enthusiastic about the way the whole event was stage managed, in the end it was quite an emotional moment.
I agree Peter.

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by FWLR » Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:47 am

markoteal wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:30 pm Now that might be a second series - send just the technical build team to various famous places around the country and get them to design and build solutions to get a loco across/over/through the challenging terrain.

They can come to my house and build a new line for me... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: 71 Mile Garden Railway anyone?? Channel 4 - 7th Jan

Post by daan » Wed Apr 11, 2018 8:55 pm

Killian Keane wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:06 pm It might be blasphemy for me to say this, but if they end up doing a second series, I might suggest that they not use a narrow gauge locomotive, that would aid with the constant falling off problem, maybe gauge 3?
We would need Isambard Kingdom Brunel as a host for that program.. :lol: :lol:
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