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Got to be Buggleskelly, or the Basingstoke / Alton line

no.

I already told you, when I said the line never carried passengers, what I meant was that it was not built to carry passengers.

I'll give you a clue to narrow it down. The railway in question has something in common with the railway in my last question.

Edge Hill Light Railway.

Chris Cairns.

got it!

Your turn.

Like the last railway, this line was built as an industrial railway and never carried passengers. It was isolated from the national rail network, and initially there was no road access either.

What was I?

Chris Cairns.

Chris Cairns:88398 wrote:Like the last railway, this line was built as an industrial railway and never carried passengers. It was isolated from the national rail network, and initially there was no road access either.

What was I?

Chris Cairns.

Locahber narow gauge railway?

Rob

No, when the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway was built in 1925 there was road access to Fort William.

However you are very close.

Chris Cairns.

Chris Cairns:88463 wrote:No, when the Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway was built in 1925 there was road access to Fort William.

However you are very close.

Chris Cairns.

Close in time, place or theme, or is that asking too much?

Rob

robc_wa wrote:or is that asking too much?

Yes, but to answer your questions anyway - Earlier, same country & same theme.

Chris Cairns.

Aha - the Kinlochleven aluminium factory railway.

Opened in 1907 it was the first electrically powered railway in Scotland, and the village of Kinlochleven apparently was the first village in the world where all houses had electricity, gaining the nickname "The Electric Village".



Road access to Kinlochleven was gained in the 1920s when German POWs were employed to build the road.

Sadly nothing remains of the railway, and a recent scheme to run a tourist steam railway on the trackbed failed to gain the necessary support.

You have the baton Richard.

Chris Cairns.

A nice easy one this time: connect this with the previous question, and tell me where we are.

You are certainly getting your money's worth out of your Northern Ireland & Ireland holiday Richard.

The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

Chris Cairns.

Already had this one havent we!

Chris Cairns:88520 wrote:You are certainly getting your money's worth out of your Northern Ireland & Ireland holiday Richard.

The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

We go every year - parents live in Lisburn, and brother in Donegal Town. This particular photo is from six and a half years ago.

It is indeed Peckett works no. 1097, formerly at the British Aluminium plant at Larne where it was No. 2.



I had my very first footplate ride on sister loco No. 1 (works no. 1026) at Shane's Castle aged about 3.

METHSSNIFFER:88522 wrote:Already had this one havent we!

Have we? I forget. Anyway, over to Chris.

Opened to traffic in 1925 this unique railway feature was used to join 2 railway stations over a rail distance of 9.6 miles and a change in altitude of approx 984'.

What am I?

Chris Cairns.

Bump.

The gauge used is 2 ft 5 & 15⁄16 in.

Chris Cairns.

Funicular system?

No, an adhesion railway.

Chris Cairns.