My Uncle's railway (eventually)

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My Uncle's railway (eventually)

Post by laalratty » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:38 pm

As many of you will know, I've have in my possesion a Roundhouse Taliesin, because I appear to have the best uncle in the whole world. :D Said uncle has finally decided to start building a railway, although you wouldn't blame him for being just a bit daunted...

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Yes that is some slope. A very steep slope!!
However despite this, work has started on vegetation clearance (the jungle used to be even more rampent then SLR midges!) with a view to commencing survey work soon

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The bonfire did get quite big...

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Meanwhile dad proceeds with some light demolishion, the bricks will come in useful I think.
With such a steep slope, I'm thinking of an end to end line on a continuous grade, Cwmcoediog style with at least one spiral. We're going to start near the bottom and see how far up we can get!!!
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Post by mhlr » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:51 pm

WOW that looks quite a challenge! Look forward to watching the progress :P
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Post by SLRmidge » Sun Apr 24, 2011 11:31 pm

Hooray, at last.... :D
I'm now saving up for a rack loco ! :lol:
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Post by LMS-Jools » Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:30 am

Yes Marvelous,

now

Get on with it ! lol :lol:
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:35 am

Hmmmm reminds me of my garden somewhat! Except that my one seems to just keep going up for about 100ft! :lol:
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Post by bungle80a » Mon Apr 25, 2011 10:40 pm

Great to see that your uncle is finally going to start work on his own line. Looks like a very interesting challenge ahead!!! Look forward to watching progress so keep us informed ratty!!!
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Post by laalratty » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:57 am

Well over the past month, things have accelerated a bit, to the extent that there have been a few changes
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First of all the inside of the shed. I don't have a "before" pic but suffice to say that it is a lot tidier. The lower terminus will be on the left of the pic.
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Moving outside and a lot of the vegetation has been removed, and whats left has been weedkilled! (except the Forsythia, which is under strict instructions to keep)
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The other side. Last week SLRmidge turned up and here he is pointing at an interesting lump of soil
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Meanwhile near the shed and work has started on preparing for the first section of trackbed
"What the hell is that?"
"It's a model icebreaker sir."
"It's a bit big isn't it?"
"It's a full scale model sir....."
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