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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:43 pm
by Andrew
Good guesses, but getting colder...
Perhaps this might help? Just a small section of 70 miles of track, but I'd guess this bit wasn't served by the passenger service...
Andrew
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:50 pm
by Matt
Royal Arsenal Railway?
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:20 pm
by Andrew
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...
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:45 pm
by Matt
okay, thanks Andrew.
I'm thinking of a railway. it never officially opened, it never carried passengers, and after being abandoned, it was over 20 years before the track was lifted.
what railway am i thinking of?
Continous quiz
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:54 pm
by Catweasel
The Post Office Railway?
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:04 pm
by Matt
no sorry, and it's not in London either.
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:38 pm
by invicta280
NG ?
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:39 pm
by Matt
nope, standard gauge.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:19 am
by laurence703
Sounds like another military railway... Box tunnel base?
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:51 am
by Matt
no sorry. and it's not military this time.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:17 pm
by Chris Cairns
Collywell Bay branch railway.
Chris Cairns.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:53 pm
by Matt
no sorry.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:08 pm
by Roosta
Great Chesterford to Newmarket?
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:59 pm
by Matt
no sorry.
to help narrow it down, all i will say is that what i meant by 'it never carried any passengers', is that it was not built to carry passengers.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:24 pm
by Chris Cairns
Llangurig branch, the shortest lived working branch line in the United Kingdom, receiving precisely one train.
Chris Cairns.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:53 pm
by Matt
no sorry.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:05 pm
by Chris Cairns
Of course we are assuming that it was in the UK but you have very cleverly not mentioned that fact.
Was it outside of the UK?
Chris Cairns.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:09 pm
by Matt
no, it was in the UK.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:19 pm
by Matt
need a clue?
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:47 am
by METHSSNIFFER
Oh Mr Porter!