Spartacus
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Boulby has plenty of lines though, isn't part of the passenger network, and is only 5 miles from Crag Hall loop anyway.
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Trivia: Longest Cul-de-sac single line (with no loops, connections or sidings)
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Boulby has plenty of lines though, isn't part of the passenger network, and is only 5 miles from Crag Hall loop anyway.
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DarloRich
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look at you with your reading stuff. Think you are clever dontcha
The passenger line is going to be a small stub branch somewhere like St Ives. I bet there are much longer freight lines
look at you with your reading stuff. Think you are clever dontcha
The passenger line is going to be a small stub branch somewhere like St Ives. I bet there are much longer freight lines
St Ives is 4 miles and 16 chains, so much shorter than a few others mentioned here
Does Bere Alston allow permissive working to pass two trains (under the first in last out methodology)? - I know Battersby allows it (I have been on a train that has done it) and the layout at Bere Alston is similar (excluding the loop) but may also be much shorter
jonesy3001
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Rochdale to shaw and crompton on the oldham loop when it was still in the hands of NR.
No, the staff section is St Budeaux to Gunnislake
edwin_m
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A freight line is almost certainly going to have at least a run-round at the end, so doesn't meet the OP's description of a cul-de-sac. There are also very few long freight branches today, unlike in BR days.look at you with your reading stuff. Think you are clever dontcha
The passenger line is going to be a small stub branch somewhere like St Ives. I bet there are much longer freight lines
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Reading this thread, I’m surprised at the number of posters who clearly don’t understand the OP’s question! A long siding is simply that, no crossing loops, run rounds or sidings at the terminus.
No, you could carry on to the rest of the network at both ends!
There's access to the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel so probably not.
ah-media
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Watford Junction - St Albans Abbey?
duffield
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Single line section from just North of Crosskeys to Ebbw Vale Town. According to my track atlas, 14m 49ch with no sidings, passing points etc.
tiptoptaff
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But it officially becomes a branch line at Park Junction, so doesn't qualify by the OPs criteria
thenorthern
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Bellarena to Londonderry is about 21 miles by road not sure about by rail and since last year I think the second platform at Londonderry has been taken out of service meaning I think its effectively a cul-de-sac.
IanD
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You obviously don't read many threads like this. They are all full of comments by people who don't bother to understand the concept or decide that they don't like it and try and change it to one they do
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