RMweb Premium DLT Posted August 10 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 10 Thanks very much. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post geoff west Posted September 8 Popular Post Share Posted September 8 9669 ready to take up duties. Expertly weathered by Tom Foster. 34 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CazRail Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 I think that's everyone's dream layout shed! Very nice, glad this layout lives on. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom F Posted Monday at 09:57 Author Popular Post Share Posted Monday at 09:57 Yesterday I headed down to Oxfordshire to continue work on my client's Cwm Prysor. I've now made the mountain section of Craig Aderwyn, which even in it's bare mod rock setting, it has a feel of the bleak mountain landscape. I've attached a photo, looking in the opposite direction of the real place, taken a few years ago. Hope to do another visit at the end of year, where we will work on adding the rock features. 27 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted Monday at 10:13 Share Posted Monday at 10:13 Spectacular. I was thinking your mountainside maybe looked a bit step, then I scrolled down a bit ! That's a proper shelf ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom F Posted Monday at 18:37 Author Share Posted Monday at 18:37 8 hours ago, Wheatley said: Spectacular. I was thinking your mountainside maybe looked a bit step, then I scrolled down a bit ! That's a proper shelf ! Thanks Wheatley 🙂 I think it was know as the ‘shelf’ 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted Monday at 18:43 Share Posted Monday at 18:43 4 minutes ago, Tom F said: Thanks Wheatley 🙂 I think it was know as the ‘shelf’ I drive that road regularly, and look up at the remains of the railway. I always think it was an insane amount of effort for what in the end constituted a few pannier tank/14xx's and a couple of coaches a day... 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted yesterday at 08:53 RMweb Gold Share Posted yesterday at 08:53 14 hours ago, Ben B said: I always think it was an insane amount of effort for what in the end constituted a few pannier tank/14xx's and a couple of coaches a day... Indeed, but.... different times, different ways... I always think that the greater effort to build such a railway, the greater is the 'crime' of closing it. 3 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 5 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: Indeed, but.... different times, different ways... I always think that the greater effort to build such a railway, the greater is the 'crime' of closing it. I'm sure I've read that there were serious proposals to retain it, to serve the atomic power station, even to the point of costing a diversion for the resovoir scheme, if the Conwy Valley line was to shut. That would seem to imply the slightly insane retention of Ruabon-Llangollen-Corwen-Bala-Traws just for the flask trains, unless the plan was to work flasks up the Cambrian and retain Dollgellau to Bala. Of course that could have just been so the engineers could justify the lower costs keeping of the Conwy route and a bit of new infrastructure in B.Ffestiniog. Who knows- maybe in some alternate history, the Conwy route is shut, and a few 158's a day still negotiate the tortuous curves into the old GWR station, after arriving from Ruabon and Llangollen :) 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted 19 hours ago Share Posted 19 hours ago Real life photo is interesting, you've got the reasonably distinct but irregular cut line where the natural slope is interrupted by the railway cutting, then a smoother scree slope below where the spoil from the cutting/shelf has just been tipped and allowed to find its own angle of repose (he said, trying to remember the geology bits of his degree ....). The modroc captures that i think. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium JZ Posted 19 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 19 hours ago 1 hour ago, Ben B said: I'm sure I've read that there were serious proposals to retain it, to serve the atomic power station, even to the point of costing a diversion for the resovoir scheme, if the Conwy Valley line was to shut. Wasn't BR offered compensation in order to divert the line? Or was that just a figment of me imagination. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted 18 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 18 hours ago (edited) Taking the Treweryn/Trawsfynydd/Tanygrisiau schemes as a whole, there were a lot of local conspiracy theories at the time. Some of them turned out not to be theories... Edited 17 hours ago by The Johnster 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted 17 hours ago RMweb Gold Share Posted 17 hours ago 2 hours ago, JZ said: Wasn't BR offered compensation in order to divert the line? Or was that just a figment of me imagination. No, you are right, Liverpool Corporation did offer compensation but BR decided to close it anyway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium JZ Posted 16 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 16 hours ago 56 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: No, you are right, Liverpool Corporation did offer compensation but BR decided to close it anyway. Surprised they didn't take the compo anyway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom F Posted 15 hours ago Author Share Posted 15 hours ago 1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said: No, you are right, Liverpool Corporation did offer compensation but BR decided to close it anyway. Indeed, realising it was much cheaper to just knock through from the GWR to the LNWR station. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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