World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by Old Man Aaron » Sun Nov 13, 2022 3:46 pm

With the recent disposal of two thirds of my coaching stock, I'm proud to add a whopping 16" of coach and short-wheelbase guard's van. :lol:

On a more serious note, both these trains are boggling my 2am-tired mind.
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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by stevenfitch » Sun Nov 13, 2022 4:52 pm

gregh wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:07 am
ge_rik wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:41 am I did find an article about the logistics, but can't now track it down. There were 25 four-car sets which they could only run downhill and in so doing generated 4000kwh of power. I've tracked down this other article which gives some of the stats
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Me also, "how can they have all of that power drawn in the same section"

I know parts of London Underground are restricted to how many units can be in the same section and Tyne & Wear Metro had an issue at the end of Great North Run a few years ago with something like 6 trains sitting in the South Shields section when the max is supposed to be 4.
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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by Lonsdaler » Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:07 pm

I can add a meagre 2450mm ( /16 = 153 feet) to that total of 1651 feet, giving us a total so far of 1804 feet.
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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by Andrew » Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:16 am

Lonsdaler wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:07 pm I can add a meagre 2450mm ( /16 = 153 feet) to that total of 1651 feet, giving us a total so far of 1804 feet.
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That's 1829 with Aaron's contribution!

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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by Lonsdaler » Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:10 am

Andrew wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:16 am
Lonsdaler wrote: Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:07 pm I can add a meagre 2450mm ( /16 = 153 feet) to that total of 1651 feet, giving us a total so far of 1804 feet.
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That's 1829 with Aaron's contribution!

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Ah, I missed Aaron's post (apologies Aaron).
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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by philipy » Fri Nov 18, 2022 11:05 am

I can add an even more meagre 2320mm (/16 = 145ft)
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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by big-ted » Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:58 pm

Happy to add my collection of four Brandbright 4-wheelers for another 800mm. Would need a long coupling chain to reach me in Canada though!

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Re: World's longest narrow gauge passenger train

Post by Andrew » Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:01 pm

Thanks Big Ted!

With Philip's addition, we're now at 2,024 feet...

Ted, I think we'll have to discount the coupling chain because - although we'd definitely break the record, to stretch that far the chain would need to be over 3,500 actual miles long...

Talking of long distances - do any of out Australian members want to play? A couple of you have a good number of carriages in their fleets...

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