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Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:43 pm
by macclad
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A couple of hours messing about with the route editor and RWDecal.

A short industrial line that was used to harvest peat near Wilmslow until about 2000. All I need to do now (apart from a lot more practise and work on the route) is to learn how to make some little narrow gauge diesels.

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:20 pm
by macclad
Another hour or so of playing around. Anyone made any small NG diesel locos yet??

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Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:12 pm
by Padsterdood
It's absolutely TERRIBLE!!!!!.........

...that no one has bothered to comment on this interesting and unique little railway. I wasn't aware that peat used to be harvested in Cheshire, though I do recall Lindow Man being found in a peat bog so they were obviously digging it up for a reason. Anyway, great work so far. It's nice to see a narrow gauge railway for a change.

Best wishes,
Padster

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:18 pm
by macclad
Thanks for the kind words

Its was this peat farm that where Lindow Man was found.

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:33 am
by donsaliery
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Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:59 am
by pauls
Hi ,

Fascinating railway - lots of character - and really nice route modelling !!

Cheers
Paul

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:40 pm
by macclad
A couple more,

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Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:01 pm
by spikeyorks
I think that this is a very interesting and unusual subject to pick. Well done for having the imagination to come up with the idea :)

Just one small thing. You're screenshots are too big and break the forum fules. Try displaying them like this.
(Use the quote button to see how I did it).


Regards

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:27 pm
by macclad
Many thanks for the tip, it took me forever to get the pics to show in here, I completely forgot about the size limits :oops:

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:41 pm
by msdejesus
Lovely, indeed, that last (resized) picture actually shows the route off very well. Thanks for sharing.

Manuel

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:22 pm
by FoggyMorning
Looks very nice; it's always interesting to see those railways which are a little bit "different"

Steve

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:46 am
by haddock1000
Another lovely little NG runaround.

Can I make the suggestion about the track? I hae always found that with this track, it is advisable to raise the terrain ever so slightly, covering some of the ballast, along the route. This makes the route look a little more rickety, thus adding character.

thanks,

chaddockdk

Re: Wilmslow Peat Railway

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:27 am
by macclad
Hi Chaddockdk, I know what you mean, if I could uniformly raise the terrain slightly I would raise it so almost only the rails are visible, but not sure if you can do that, am still on a learning curve with the editors here. :)