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posted: 30 Nov 2015 23:21

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Richard_Jones
 
Heswall - United Kingdom

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Can TEMPLOT cope with this type of trackwork?Seen at Norfolk Bay convict station, Taranna, Tasmaniaundefinedundefined

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posted: 1 Dec 2015 02:09

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Matt M.
 
Australia

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More importantly Richard, can you build the working scale convicts to push it...

If so I'm putting in an order for some working 7mm shunting horses.

Matt M.

posted: 1 Dec 2015 05:10

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Richard_Jones
 
Heswall - United Kingdom

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Hi Matt,No problem, we just need to get Jonathan Swift to persuade the Lilliputian Government to introduce transportation.......

posted: 1 Dec 2015 05:13

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Matt M.
 
Australia

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That's not like sending jobs overseas is it?

posted: 2 Dec 2015 21:31

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Ariels Girdle
 
 

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You don't necessarily need convicts or horses. There was a railway with timber rails in New Zealand (briefly) powered by steam locomotives.

http://the-lothians.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-saga-of-southlands-wooden-railway.html

posted: 3 Dec 2015 04:18

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Roger Henry
 
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          Australia did have a tramway that utilised wooden rails. A timber logging line, near Crows Nest, north of Toowoomba in Queensland was privately set-up, although without Government permission and operated for a n umber of years, It connected with the 3' 6" State system and utilised three Shay locos. It survived until the late 1920s or thereabouts. Little trace remains of it today.

See: http://www.crowsnesttramway.co.uk/archive.html for more information and an interesting resurrection. A more serious study, with some photos is at: http://www.crowsnesttramway.co.uk/archive.html   also of interest is: http://www.railheritagewa.org.au/info/wart.htm

   And, of course, the early US railroads, desperately wanting to expand, used timber 'rails' extensively. A metal strap was often pinned to the running surface, to reduce friction and wear. One of the downsides was that the rolling action of the iron/steel wheels, caused the iron strap to curl up as the nails came loose. If a wheel passed under a curled up section the strap would ne forced up vertically into the goods wagon or passenger car. Passengers viewed this unfavourably, nick-naming the now lethal straps as 'snake-heads'. The p  practice did not last long.

  http://www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/rail/rail_intro.html   refers.

 

Roger

 

posted: 4 Dec 2015 12:30

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Richard_Jones
 
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HiYes, the Middlebere Tramway in Dorset had a Lewin engine running on a platewayJust been ridding the trams in MelbourneBest wishesRichard

posted: 4 Dec 2015 13:00

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Richard_Jones
 
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But of course the Middlebere wasn't wooden rails.....



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