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Brain Teaser - How many of today's narrow gauge lines occupy former standard gauge track beds?

Discussie in 'Narrow Gauge Railways' gestart door BiggerBob, 15 aug 2016.

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  1. BiggerBob

    BiggerBob New Member

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    Are your little grey cells feeling moribund?
    Need an antidote to endless Olympics on the gogglebox?.
    Need an excuse to put off mowing the lawn?

    By the way partial occupation also counts as does closed but extant narrow gauge lines.
     
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  2. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Bala.
    Lappa Valley.
    Seaton Tramway.
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    Bromyard.
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    Teifi Valley
    Bure Valley if 15" counts
     
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    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    Waterford and Suir should qualify.

    Moribund Foyle Valley Rly in Derry
     
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  5. Anthony Coulls

    Anthony Coulls Well-Known Member

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    Go down to 10 1/4" and you also have Wells & Walsingham ;)
     
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    staffordian Well-Known Member

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    Rudyard Lake?
     
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    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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    Launceston.
     
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    Obvious: Kirklees Light Railway.
    Moderately obscure: Final few yards of the Festiniog Railway (into Blaenau Ffestiniog).
    Technically: All of the Ravenglass below Murthwaite (first 3', then 15", then 15" and standard dual gauge, then back to just 15").
     
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    houghtonga Member

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    Wasn't the Teifi Valley originally Broad Gauge (7ft) before becoming standard gauge? Or am I thinking of Launceston?

    Gareth
     
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    Launceston was LSWR so not broad gauge
     
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    flying scotsman123 Resident of Nat Pres

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    South Devon railway, West somerset railway...... :D
     
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    pmh_74 Part of the furniture

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    It's only a guess but what about that NG line next to the GWR at Toddington? And is there still similarly a NG line at the Midland Railway Centre? (And can we count the old 15" gauge line which was at Carnforth).
    No idea which of these are on actual trackbeds as opposed to just alongside.
     
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  13. houghtonga

    houghtonga Member

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    Yes, found out that the Teifi Valley was indeed converted from broad to standard gauge and is now narrow gauge - I always thought there was one...
     
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    Matt78 Well-Known Member

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    No - the line that TVR occupies was built by GWR after BG days.

    Regards

    Matt
     
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    The TVR line was built by the broad guage Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway in stages in the 1860s. It was taken over by the GWR in the 1880s.
     
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    I know and the original question was about former standard gauge lines. :)
     
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    Err the reply was to Gareth's comment about Launceston having been possibly broad gauge. :)
     
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    I take that back. The bit the TVR occupies is on the GWR's later extension to Newcastle Emlyn, so would never have been broad guage.
     
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    Makes life a whole lot easier for the rest of us if you quote the relevant post. ;)
     
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  20. BiggerBob

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    Speaking of the original question - there is still at least one more line out there that nobody has mentioned.
     
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