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Hi

Does anyone have any idea where I could get a gradient profile of the Foxfield Railway? I am planning on making a basic version of it, with semi-accurate trackplans, but I need some gradients for the route though. DEM terrain has been done, and markers have been put along the track.

Chris

Does anyone even want this route? If so please reply. Also, I wouldn't mind if someone scanned me some gradient info, just to help get me started.

Chris

Christopher125 wrote:Does anyone even want this route? If so please reply. Also, I wouldn't mind if someone scanned me some gradient info, just to help get me started.

Chris

Where is the route?

MeridianNick wrote:

Christopher125 wrote:Does anyone even want this route? If so please reply. Also, I wouldn't mind if someone scanned me some gradient info, just to help get me started.

Chris

Where is the route?

You can find more about the foxfield railway at:
http://www.foxfieldrailway.co.uk

I have looked at all my info but regrettably I haven't got a gradient profile for this route. I had hoped I got it somewhere as I have visited Foxfield a number of times.

Chris, Maybe you could contact the railway for this kind of information.

regards,

Jan de Jong
Bleiswijk, The Netherlands

Hi Jan

I'd be happy or any information frankly, Its amzing how little there is out on the net and I can't find any books. I've given up on the Gradient profile-I just layed the colliery gradient (1in19 in places) by guess work, by working out roughly the height of the colliery and Dilhorne Park, and then just connecting them up with track ranging from 1in28 to 1in19

Chris

I'd like to see a Fowfield Route as somewhere nice to run the industrials in a challenging environment, I believe there is a very steep bank on the extension, and with the Fowfield Colliery represented, it would give the route a different feel to most others.

Hi David



This is a shot of Dilhorne Park, with the colliery lien descending to the right



And this is of Foxfield Colliery, looking towards Dilhorne Park, you can clearly see the 1in19 gradient, although these shots are very much development shots, and because I am going to include lots of little details, like weeds, broken fences etc, this route will probably take some time, although I did start it on Saturday! Unfortunatley, I wont have a custom Foxfield colliery, unless someone volunteers to do it. This will be my first prototypical route, so I want to make it just right
However, my biggest problem is info, I have no gradient profile as I have already said, and very few pictures, mostly of the colliery gradient, so any help in that department would be great, even if you have only got a few pictures.

Chris

Nice one, I can just imagine an austerit slogging up.

i can recommend using the Mideat Colliery buildings that were used also on Cannock Chase

Dear Chris,

Is this what you were looking for?





courtesy of The Railway Magazine (I knew I had seen it somewhere)

regards,

Jan de Jong
Bleiswijk, The Netherlands

Chris,

For your (and of course for everybody's else) info:

The railway Magazine has published in issue 1168 to 1178 (1998/1999) a 11 part special:

Atlas of Heritage railways, including gradient profiles of all major preserved lines:
- Avon valley railway
- Bala lake railway
- Battlefield line
- Bluebell railway
- Bodmin en wenford railway
- Bo'ness & kinneil railway
- Bowes railway
- Brecon mountain railway
- Caledonian railway
- Chinnor & princes risborough railway
- Cholsey & wallingford railway
- Churnet valley railway
- Dean forest railway
- East lancashire railway
- East kent railway
- East somerset railway
- Embsay & Bolton abbey railway
- Ffesttiniog railway
- Foxfield railway
- Gloucestershire warwickshire railway
- Great central railway
- Gwili railway
- Isle of man steam railway
- Isle of wight railway
- Keighley & worth valley railway
- Kent & east sussex railway
- Lakeside and haverthwaite railway
- Launceston steam railway
- Leighton buzzard railway
- Llangollen railway
- llanberis lake railway
- Mid-hants railway
- Mid-norfolk railway
- Middleton railway
- Midland railway centre
- Nene valley railway
- North norfolk railway
- North yorkshire moors railway
- Northampton & lamport railway
- North tyneside railway
- Paignton & dartmouth railway
- Peak rail
- Pontypool & blaenavon railway
- Severn valley railway
- Sittingbourne & kemsley railway
- Snowdon mountain railway
- South devon railway
- South tynedale railway
- Spa valley railway
- Strathspey railway
- Swanage railway
- Swansea valley railway
- Talyllyn railway
- Tanfield railway
- Vale of rheidol railway
- Welsh highland railway
- Welshpool & llanfair railway
- West somerset railway

But all of them of course in their 1998/1999 status/length

regards,

Jan de Jong
Bleiswijk, The Netherlands

Thanks Mate - That will help enormously, its exactly what i am
looking for.

You wouldn't have any info on trackplans would you? While not absolutely neccesary for the first release, I will need a track plan of the upper yard at the colliery, something which I didn't know existed until yesterday when I found a pic of it.

Chris

davidaward wrote:Nice one, I can just imagine an austerit slogging up.

i can recommend using the Mideat Colliery buildings that were used also on Cannock Chase

Hi David

Good idea - I didn't think of that

Chris