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Ffestiniog Railway - track laying in Summit Cutting in 1978.

Discussie in 'Narrow Gauge Railways' gestart door 45669, 8 jul 2013.

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    Afternoon All,

    I have just put some pictures of the newly laid track at Summit Cutting on Flickr. I was on a working party in January, 1978 and, as was the common practice, we put lumps of rock or ballast under the wheels of the waggons to stop them rolling away downhill.

    However, we did this after laying another length of track, but the waggon still rolled away...but in the wrong direction! it rolled towards Blaenau instead of Porthmadog and we knew that we had gone over the summit. For the first time ever, the FR now had a down gradient towards the top end of the line.

    The pictures were on Fotopic once, so some of you may remember seeing them. However, for anyone that did not, or for anyone that would like to see them again, here's the link to the first of the pictures on Flickr :

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    R5825. Summit Cutting. January, 1978. by Ron Fisher, on Flickr

    Clicking on the picture will enlarge it and take you to the others.

    Hope that they are of interest.
     
    45669, 8 jul 2013
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