WOODROW COMPLETLEY BURIED!!!

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WOODROW COMPLETLEY BURIED!!!

Post by pauly » Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:58 pm

just thought Id take some pics of the railway entombed in snow

I havent seen the track fo ra couple of weeks now and am starting to forget where it actually is  :sick:
its under that drift somewhere
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drifts running up the side of the factory
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chimney brought down by snow last week
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all stock left in Woodrow yard is buried
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tipper wagons
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tanker knocked over by a storm last week
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up on the WVR
a tree damaged by heavy ice and snow
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the station
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after I do a little bit of digging
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the main station is under there somewhere
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found a spot where the snow was thin and tried digging down to the track but the ice rock solid down there
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Post by PCLR » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:10 pm

all hands to the snowploght
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Hancockshire

Post by Hancockshire » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:53 pm

Boiling kettle full of water will do. While you're melting the snow, 'ave a cuppa :lol:
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Post by pauly » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:34 pm

a blizzards just added 3 1%2 iches to it :sick:
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:22 pm

Looks like you've got it similar to me!
Bad!
Some snow is really fun but this is getting serious
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Post by pauly » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:38 pm

its horrendous!

look at how high the snow is on the sheds!
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and the signal box!
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how about this one! can someone point to where the railway bridge and station are please?
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or how about the other station, anyone see that?
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DAMN SNOW!!!
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Post by mhlr » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:50 pm

Jese, that is a LOT of snow there Pauly, I can only remember having it like that when I was little in Yorkshire!
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Post by pauly » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:07 am

day has broken and the snow has finally stopped falling (for now)
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right there is now nothing to indicate that there was ever a large station and bridge here...
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or a small station here...
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factory missing
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signal box barley visible
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and the large sheds at the yard are also gone
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the station on the rockery is also gone
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this is now much snow fell last night (I brush it off everyday)
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Post by Narrow Minded » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:32 am

Hiya Pauly, I was going to drop you a line to ask how you're getting on running your MSS saddle tank.
Having looked at your photo's I won't bother!!

It's pretty much the same hear in the E.Midlands and the ice underneath the snow makes it pretty impossible to run anything even if you brush the snow off.

Not sure about the idea of boiling the kettle to pour on the track - the first lot would be just about freozen by the time you boiled the next one!

16mm gritter perhaps????? :D
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Post by LMS-Jools » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:39 am

Blimey, is this Norway ? :?
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Post by pauly » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:46 am

LMS-Jools wrote:Blimey, is this Norway ?  :?
nah its Middlesbrough of the NorthEast
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Hancockshire

Post by Hancockshire » Sat Jan 09, 2010 10:26 am

Bu99er me that's deep
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Post by SillyBilly » Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:26 am

That's a lot of snow.
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Post by mhlr » Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:31 pm

Oh aye, t' Norwth wind doth blorr!
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:45 pm

I was thinking of running trains this weekend, but when I got home earlier today, i thought NO!

The daytime temp today was -4.5.C
Theres a foot of snow on the trackbed with ice below that as well

So it's school work as my bits from dream steam haven't arrived
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Post by METHSSNIFFER » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:41 pm

Maybe we should have undertrack heating so the track stays clear in snowfal!!l. I saw they were using those hand held gas burners to clear snow on the terraces at ARSENAL FC. I cant imagine havin a gas blow lamp on the front of a loco. But Im goin to make a salt spreader using a fan blade to distribute the salt powered by a battery pack! Im looking at a tinplate hornby thats similar.
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