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Weymouth Quay Heritage Campaign

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by SR.Keoghoe, Jan 18, 2016.

  1. AnthonyTrains2017

    AnthonyTrains2017 Well-Known Member

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    Wouldn't mind a bit of the rail when they rip it up.
     
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    upload_2016-2-4_21-49-52.jpeg Why, when I read some of the highly unlikely schemes that surface on NP, do these two guys come to mind?
     
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    But that was a means of getting standard rail vehicles to run on tramway track. At Sheffield it is the other way round so, as I have said, the technical adaptations will be interesting.
     
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    As I understand it the NR pointwork isn't being modified, it is the Supertram track work being modified to accommodate the tram-trains. Presumably they have a flange profile somewhere between a tram and a conventional main line vehicle.
     
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    johnofwessex Resident of Nat Pres

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    Hum - looks as though they stymied the turntable plan as well...............
     
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    Yes, an object lesson in the costs of letting the heart rule the head.
     
  8. paulhitch

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    So a properly engineered and funded proposal to provide a turntable was frustrated by gricers as it might get in the way of their delusions. No-one need be surprised.

    PH
     
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    Hello face, here's my nose. I'm going to cut it off now to spite you.
     
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    That's really bad news. A turntable would have made RTC's Dorset Coast Expresses a far more attractive proposition. The series sounded a good idea when they started, with the steam banker, but now that has been abandoned, I was keen to hear when the turntable ws to be installed after so much talk. This was not the news I was hoping for.
     
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    I haven't seen the most recent plans but as a local I cant help but think a fully closed Harbour branch would actually ease the turntable construction option not block it. The existing siding spur through the abortively built service compound extended over the line of the harbour branch would generate enough space without taking much off the car park. That spur is also the one used currently for servicing steam so no additional signalling issues in extending it southwards. The alternative using any alignment off the harbour spur takes more space and I am sure needs signalling alterations. The option fed from Jersey Sidings could be constructed entirely fenced off from live lines and then connected. That alone surely eases construction options.


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    Spot on.

    It amuses me when the press talk of ripping the tracks up. If one studies the pictures of when the branch was relaid and re aligned with new harbour walls, the rails formed an integral part of the construction giving longitudinal rigidity. They will just be be tarmac'd over.
     
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    Then the tarmac will forever crack owing to the thermal expansion of the rails below!
     
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    London tram track was in places buried under tarmac and was only dug up in the 60s so cant have been too bad
     
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    Siding track is already tarred over. Seems to survive fairly well. Remember years ago seeing a pneumatic drill hit buried track in the square o/s Leeds City station. Interesting effects.


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    Some of the old tram tracks near Nottingham station (on Carrington Street and Station Street) have probably been buried for 80-odd years until they dug them out recently, they didn't appear to cause any issues.
     
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    I am told that digging out the old track caused major delays in the construction of the Sheffield Supertram. The tracks were also buried under the Wellsway in Bath until recently
     
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    Likewise in Liverpool, much of it still there.
     
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    Sir, all I can suggest is that you view all the old trackwork that has been tarmac'd over.

    Your theory is unfounded
     
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    Really? Do you know how recently?
     

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