ArchieWoodbine
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On the SWB from Wootton Bassett Jnc. to Bristol Parkway, you'll often find which (once common) item re-purposed as mileposts?
Can you be more specific? In terms of type of rail?Old rail that has been cut up
Correct! Cowley, your floor.Is it old broad gauge ‘baulk road’ rails?
Correct! Cowley, your floor.
The use of cheap, poor-quality coal (lignite / anthracite); to get efficient generation of steam from which, required locos to be built with such deep, wide firebox grates that on some classes, there was no room to put the cab in the usual position -- had to be set on top of the boiler, with just a small "perch" at the rear end of the loco for he fireman?
891mm is three Swedish feet. Not sure about 785mm
That would be the Tunel in Istanbul so about 140 years old.OK. Now thought of one.
How old is the old Funicular in the world ? [ will accept within 10 years of correct answer ]
No it wouldn't !That would be the Tunel in Istanbul so about 140 years old.
The one in Scarborough isn't as old nor has it operated without a break.No it wouldn't !
Oh it's not that one in some castle in Austria? If it was a true funicular- I thought it was horse/mule gin powered?-if it does count it goes back to the middle ages a good 400+years old.
What method of transportation was introduced by whom and on which railway on this day in 1830?