Isle of Wight Steam Railway

Is it going on loan to the WSR!!!!!!!

 

Eh? That makes no sense at all. Could you explain how you have made a connection between this vehicle and the wsr?

 

The WSR thread is full of debate about using DMUs, not using DMUs, cutting operating costs, investing money in providing additional attractions, reversing or accepting the decline in passenger numbers, running push-pull operations from one end of the line or the other and other contradictory proposals without any semblance of a coherent vision. By way of contrast the IOWSR seems to be in the enviable position of having a neat, manageable operation that is always making steady improvements, as evidenced by the ‘tram’. IMHO.

 

It's just a joke and not intended to be taken seriously!

Slatted wooden seats' don't quite fit in with twenty mile routes bur that is just an added reason for not operating over such a distance.

 

Thanks. I have been following the wsr nonsense, but couldn't quite see a link with such a small specialised vehicle and the wsr!

 

Plus, it's not GWR And if its going on loan anywhere, If SWR don't get their act together, and soon, The Ryde Pier Tram, could find its self returning to very close to its old haunts, calling at Ashey, Small brook Jcn , Ryde St Johns, Ryde Esplanade, AND Ryde pier head,

 

Oh do please try to keep up at the back ...... For the first time, I know how 3-2-1's Ted Rogers must've felt, explaining his cerebral McGuffin's to bemused contestants.

1) The Drewry railcar is in Maunsell green
2) Maunsell's reign saw a larger Drewry used
3) The larger Drewry was flogged off to the WC&PR
4) The WC&PR's western terminus was Weston-super-Mare
5) The next majot resort west of Weston-super-Mare is Minehead
6) Minehead is the West Somerset Railway's western terminus


[Image courtesty glory-glory.co.uk]

Honestly, it's that obvious!

 

Excellent, very impressed you managed to get the Mighty Ted Rogers, IOWSR, WC&PR & WSR in the same post. I think you're on safe ground with 3-2-1 although we live in woke times and there's no telling who is ready and waiting to be 'outraged'!

 

from Canada and yes it was a joke,a test more like,to see if that celebrated UK sense of humour is intact. It Lives!!. I have been on the IOW electric and steam railways. I am interested because,as an outsider, this is a great combination of heritage railway and with the "new" trains an opportunity to show British ingenuity. Hope to travel on that Rail Car as well!!

 

Is that a reason for not operating a tram over 20 miles or not operating anything over 20 miles?

 

Anything larger than a Drewery railcar is big-chuffer-itis...

Actually, I would like to go for a rattle down the line on that. Impossible[1] to do, but to recreate the atmosphere of a Col Stephens sleepy light railway would be fun

[1] I'd guess a trainload of the current KESR would be more than the original KESR carried in a long time. The annual passenger gate would make Holman need a lie down...

 

"Big chufferitis'' amounts to finding ''reasons'' for using a 4-6-2 on a job for a modest sized tank locomotive.

 

[Image courtesy lner.info]

(Sorry Paul, couldn't resist! )

 

A very smart looking loco, however

 

And possibly better suited to some of our preserved railways...

 

Probably a class 2 or 3 tank I would have thought so not really a big chuffer!

 

Always worth remembering that the most cost-effective loco is the one you have available there and then.

I'll just put this up again because it's a nice photo - Bulleid pacific working tender-first on a single track line with a one coach train between Padstow and Wadebridge. Now the question is, which is the cheaper way to operate this train:

1. Work it back to Wadebridge with a loco that has just arrived and needs go back to Wadebridge anyway to be stabled overnight?
2. Steam a small tank engine specially, run it light engine from Wadebridge to Padstow to work the train back, then allow the pacific to follow behind light engine?

Show your workings ...



Tom

 

As said previously, looking for excuses.

 

Why not answer the question. How would you run that service at lower cost?

Tom