True Preservation

Railway. Loads of good scenery, but I saw very little of the railway's rolling stock. I liked the stations though

 

Howzabout Highley on the SVR ?

 

How about the coal drops at Bridgnorth?

 

that is true...almost none I'd say

 

I think there's something wrong with the footbridge, can't remember what now, them there's the fact that there's no colliery, and the engine house (although I accept that is more or less off site)

 

In other words, it's a preserved railway!

 

This a question more than anything, how about the VofR? Does it have original carriages etc? I don't know...

 

It has coaches built by the GWR - I can't remember offhand if they were 1920's or 1930's.

 

Highley, SVR, has a nicely restored cattle dock. No cattle in it, mind...

 

Id say either VofR or Groudle Glen both are both Preserved original track beds locos and stock ok maybe not in GGR's case. But they both do their orginal job as a way of transporting tourists.

 

Doesn't run into the original station at aber, if I remember correctly.

 

You remember correctly. Locos have been modified too. Air brakes and cab profiles altered.

 

At Goathland, we have coal and lime drops with "demonstration coal" (neither man nor beast can make the d**n stuff burn!) in the open coal drops. The demonstration Goods train is marked in the sidings, and NER wooden coal hopper stands on the coal drops, with another one in the lime drop shed - and the cattle dock has been rebuilt as a photography access point..........

Steven

 

I do hope there are no fibreglass "cows" in the cattle dock in the same manner as the fake "luggage" that disfigures so many heritage railway platforms and screams "fake" at visitors.

PH

 

I suspect the luggage does not scream fake to the 90%+ visitors - i.e. The general public. They will be seeing things through quite different eyes to a nit picking enthusiast.

 

Nothing nit picking at all. Empty suitcases scream "fake" and rapidly become weather beaten and tatty so doubly unrealistic. Rows of empty baggage trucks would be far more representative of railways as they were.

PH

 

Although still present the lower (near horizontal) part was removed to increase car parking space and the herringbone brickwork replaced with paving slabs,

 

The issue you refer to regarding the footbridge is the way the walkway is supported by "I beams" below the deck rather than by what would be structural lattice sides. The stairways had to comply with modern regs hence the intermediate "landings".

 

Thanks, I remember someone mentioning it, but not really caring much st the time forgot what it was