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Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:59 am
by Matt
correct! your turn.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:20 am
by TommyDodd
Two foot gauge line, 20.7 miles long, open for 58 years, owned a total of eight locomotives (of which two survive)- name it!

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:06 pm
by Peter L
The Bridgton and Harrison of course!

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:29 pm
by TommyDodd
Of course of course, and you have the ball.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:58 pm
by Peter L
This little line is where a flock of Wrens had to dodge flocks of Penguins.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:45 am
by Matt
miniature or narrow gauge Wrens?

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:55 am
by Peter L
Narrow

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:59 am
by Matt
The Camber railway, Falklands island.

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:05 am
by Peter L
Indeed it is. :D
Your turn Matt

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:11 am
by Matt
okay.

What railway, other than the ravenglass and eskdale, did captain howey consider buying before building the Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch?

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 11:48 am
by DLRdan
Lynton and Barnstable

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:48 pm
by Matt
no, not that one (I had head Howey was interested in the locos, until he saw them anyway).

The line I'm refering to was recommended by Henry Greenly to Howey as one of 3 potential sites for Howey's dream railway (the others were Romney, and Weston-Super-Mare).

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:07 pm
by TommyDodd
West Sussex Railway/Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramway?

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:41 pm
by Matt
correct.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:40 pm
by TommyDodd
What 2'6" line was built in the 1950s and operated until 2001, using a fleet of twenty 2-10-2s (and later diesels) to haul 1700 ton trains over its 255km route?

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:25 am
by TommyDodd
84hrs and not a single stab?

CLUE: This line was very fortunate in its Chief Mechanical Engineer, since it had that brilliant engineer of "Modern" steam Livio Dante Porta.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:40 am
by Chris Cairns
With that obvious clue it is The Ramal Ferro Industrial de Río Turbio in Argentina.

Chris Cairns.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 12:33 pm
by TommyDodd
They're all obvious.....if you know the answer. Your ball, sir.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:06 pm
by Chris Cairns
On which Island would you find these remains of a winch operated railway?

Image

Chris Cairns.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:19 pm
by Matt
isle of Mann?