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Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Forest Rail, Jun 7, 2015.

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    Hark! Another brief update or two! We ain't disappeared yet!
    http://deanforestpway.blogspot.co.uk/
     
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    Interesting piece about the cripple there.
     
    Forestpines, Feb 25, 2016
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    It was a very interesting morning. Just glad my day off happened to co-inside. Bit of laughter when their guy on the ground said,'Dont know what you guys were worried about, we've been over worse!'
     
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    In answer to your query about the amount of Dogfish in a train.
    We can't beat 11, but can say we have had 9 Coal Hoppers acting as ballast hoppers on the NYMR.
    And for the future we have 5 Sealions and a Seacow plus 1 dogfish, which means a tonnage of 220t of ballast, but that will be a while away until we get them all overhauled.
     
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    That sounds like a pretty mean bit of tonnage! While hunting for parts I found my eyes drawn to the 2 HTV's we have lurking in our Junk-tion. Half tempted to have a crack at them in the near future....
     
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    And build your own Tope wagons?
     
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    Can never have enough ballast!
     
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    "Two items of news on the railway. Firstly, the P/Way Dept have finished reballasting the line to their desired 'deep ballast' standard. Secondly, in unrelated news, all our platforms are now at rail level."
     
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    Wow, you'll need plenty of steps to get on the carriages.
     
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    That should make the ballast depth 3ft or so.
    That's why you need so many Dogfish then.:)
     
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    That, and its a variation of Shiny Kit Syndrome found only on Heritage Railways. Rusty Kit Syndrome!
     
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    That's a running joke in our house. "Look children, a huge pile of rusting crap! It must be a steam railway!"

    Or should I say, a non-running joke...
     
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