I want to buy some land to run a train on.

166Driver · Post by **166Driver** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:12 am

I want to get some old LU stock, and build a small railway on some land. How would I do this?

phill70 · Post by **phill70** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:15 am

with great dificulty i would have thought

Tomnick · Post by **Tomnick** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:08 pm

Try winning the lottery, or settling for 'small railway' in 'OO' terms...

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 12:08 pm

Is it April 1st already ?

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:04 pm

First things first, Acquire shed loads of money.

When you've done this, Send me a few thousand as proof and I will try and work out the next step.

I've thought about saving a few items of rolling stock myself, But so far my lottery numbers have not come up..... 89001 and 58001 are on my shopping list, As long as the price is right...... feck knows what I'll do with them though... Maybe I'll give fragonset a call.

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:07 pm

Oh just remembered, My brother used to deliver calor gas and one of his customers is a wealthy train entusiast who has actually laid some standard gauge track on his land and has some rolling stock for playing trains, Just a shunter or two I think.

peterholton · Post by **peterholton** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:31 pm

AFAIAA, if you've got enough money and land, you can plant a railway on it and do what you want without bothering the planning authorities or railway regulations, so long as it's for private use etc. Your insurance company may have something to add to that, however.

Didn't the guy who bought "Union of South Africa" run it on his own land a few years back? Must look it up.

Peter

peterholton · Post by **peterholton** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 1:35 pm

Lochty Private Railway. John Cameron

Peter

http://www.braehead-news.org.uk/html/steam_trains.htm

jjules · Post by **jjules** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:45 pm

I'd love to own a 158 and a few miles of track.

Pity it'll only ever be a dream

Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:49 pm

4472 and the ECML to myself

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nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:47 pm

Lochty Private Railway. John Cameron

No longer there. everythings gone from the site, jsut a storage are for hay now

chriscooper · Post by **chriscooper** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 3:50 pm

If I had the money I'd buy smoe track and 3rd rail Electrify it and then run old SR Slammers on it. By the time I've got enough money though the Slammers will be well gone and I'll problably end up picking up a Desiro and/or Electrostar from a scrapyard, maybe a Juniper aswell if they havn't all been scrapped well before then (we're talking 10 or 15 years from now

). Perhaps have another line with 25kV overhead and get an ex Virgin Pendolino and a 357 or 360.

166Driver · Post by **166Driver** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:39 pm

I have Â£2 million to spend.

Well, just Â£1 million at the moment, with potential of another million later. I'm sure that should be more than enough.

nightbeaver911 · Post by **nightbeaver911** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:43 pm

Speedbird083 wrote:4472 and the ECML to myself .

I think we should put in a joint bid for the ECML

Â£2m! Can I ask where you aquired that from?

p/s do you have a 2nd home in Columbia?

nightbeaver911 · Post by **nightbeaver911** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:48 pm

without bothering the planning authorities or railway regulations

If your been serious try PM'ing markw he used to be a planner and will know what you can and cannot do. [/quote]