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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:08 pm
by Pretoria
Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:39 pm
by TommyDodd
I know it's not my turn, but it's all gone very very quiet...

So where's this?
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:52 pm
by MDLR
Athens?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:10 am
by TommyDodd
Right country, wrong town.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:10 am
by Marquis DeCarabas
SINCERE APOLOGIES I'm in the middle of moving house, and for some reason my 'watch this subject' didn't work.

Sorry, chaps. I've not been deliberately ignoring it: why didn't someone send me a PM?

Thessalonika?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:24 pm
by TommyDodd
Wrong end of the country.

CLUE: Everything in the picture is metre gauge

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:41 pm
by Sir Clothem Cap
Kiato maybe?

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:08 pm
by TommyDodd
...or maybe not.

Clue II: Junction station

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:06 pm
by Marquis DeCarabas
Corinth?

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:16 pm
by TommyDodd
All game stabs, but it would have been guessed by now if it was going to be guessed at all. Twas Pyrgos, junction for the Olympia branch. I believe it was your turn next anway, MdeC.

Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:49 pm
by Marquis DeCarabas
I shall have a ponder...


Converted to double track in 1803, I am 2 inches wider than Amalthaea.
One long length was not converted to double track and remained single. The reason for the track remaining single still survives, although in an incomplete form.

What is the name of the reason?

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:25 pm
by Sir Clothem Cap
budget cuts by network rail :lol:

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:57 pm
by Marquis DeCarabas
Hmm.

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:13 pm
by alanf
The Surrey Iron Railway?

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:23 pm
by Marquis DeCarabas
Close - right sort of vintage of railway, but not that railway.

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:11 pm
by MDLR
Something 4' 2" gauge?? Amalthaea ran on the Padarn railway which was 4' gauge....................

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:10 pm
by Marquis DeCarabas
Getting warm...

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 10:19 pm
by TommyDodd
Unable to think of anything 4'2" gauge I thought "cryptic!" and found a drawing. Note that he said 2" wider than Amalthea and didn't mention gauge at all. According to Boyd, Amalthea was 7'8" broad in the beam. Unfortunately I can only find one 8' gauge line and the Johnstown Incline was built too late to count. Foiled again!

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:45 pm
by Marquis DeCarabas
TommyDodd:68042 wrote:Foiled again!
If you need proof of my cryptic mind, just ask our mutual friend Mr. Hudson... ;)

Sadly, you're getting colder. I though somebody might get Johnstown, but that's a dead end unfortunately. However, as Johnstown is an Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark, I can say that what I'm after is a Grade II * listed thing.

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:45 pm
by alanf
The reason Stodhart Tunnel. Peak Forest Tramway