Some screens of the terraformed island prior to the navvies taking up residence.
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Above is Flushing Bay, looking north. Flushing is on the south coast and is the largest town on the island and the headquarters of the islands second railway company. If you imagine the island to be a clock face, Flushing is at 5:00pm. The town will be to the right, the southern coast line running west to Penryn (at the south west corner of the island) will run around the head of the bay from right to left.
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Above are two views of the main river, the Mylor River which has it's source in the centre of the island and drains east, reaching the coast at Mylor Churchtown which is at 3:00pm on our maginary clock face plan of the island. One view is looking east towards the sea, the second view is looking west up the estuary towards the centre of the island. Mylor is Carrick Island's second town and the headquarters of the first railway company founded on the island and located just out of view behind the camera. It's here that I have started track laying. See below.
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Above is Greatwood, the headland that forms the northern promontory of the Mylor estuary and the piece of land you can just see in the top of the picture below that shows the track laid on Mylor Quay. This view is looking north of west. Track will run all along this coast, part way up that slope...
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Restronguet, site of a mining town where iron ore is mined and smelted into pig iron to be sent down the line for procesing at the Pyracymon Tinplate Works at Trelew (west of Mylor on the south bank of the Mylor River) or for export at Mylor Quay. Restronguet is north of GreatWood. Looking north west this is at about 2:00pm on our clock face. I'll post up a basic map of the island soon!
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The cliffs of Helwyn and Carclew, about 100m high. Looking west along the rugged north coast of the island. According to my marker file there is a railway going to be built half way up that cliff somewhere! The line serving the northern shore settlements is going to be the quietest backwater of the route. A bit like an extreme version of the Ventnor West branch along the undercliff on the Isle of Wight. About noon on the clock face here.
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Treluswell Bay in the far north west of the island 10:00pm on our clock face. Apart from Perran Wharf a few miles north, Treluswell is the only settlement of note on this section of the coast. On the right hand side of the bay in this picture will be the terminus of the north coast line. Treluswell has a number of industries which alone make this length of line renumerative, the other income is from the fish trains from Perran Wharf. Passenger recipts are less important on this part of the route.
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Above are two pictures of tracklaying in progress. Mylor Quay is the upper image and is inspired by the Madder Valley Railway, Wantage Road Tramway, Bridgewater Docks (a la Dave Rowe) and Weymouth Docks. If all goes to plan there will be some interesting interaction between the trains and the car spawners hereabouts, the railway becoming a tramroad as it climbs from the quay up through the town streets to the station (the line going off the bottom of the picture which is a 1 in 60 gradient).
The second picture shows the raw track layout of Mylor Churchtown station. The small 3-road goods yard is lower left. Upper left is the bay platform with it's loco release road (which doubles as the yard headshunt). The two main platforms are upper centre and are both served by a centre loco release road in the style of Douglas IoM. The line curving away top right is the goods-only line descending to the Quay which you can just make out in the distance upper right. There needs to be a lot of earth-movng done here to accomodate the town... Apart from Douglas I had Cowes, IoW in my minds eye while building this station, mainly in the way the station and associated buildings relate to the town around it.
Later I will post up some shots of the track testing train in action at Mylor and along the line to Porloe Works.
