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You might need a diving suitBruceB wrote:Very Nice Matt,
I'd like to see barmouth bridge after having a king cross it
Bruce
I was going to say that, otherwise great shots. I am not sure that the Cambrian Coast line was ever double red but it looks great.robin wrote:Nice shots, Although many GWR practices by the BR days were no longer observed it was customary whenever possible for the senior loco when double heading to be on the front.
I did not know that Kings were not allowed.davidaward wrote:Nice shots, but I will repeat everyone else, a King on the Cambrian??????????????????????? Manors were the largest allowed here.
I am not sure but I think thje highest axle rating would have been blue but I suspect much of it would have been yellow or even not classified. Hence why manors and the like were the biggest locos. But what the hey its a good route to run anything GWR. I prefer Gordon's BALA route though as ts trackwork comes from pre WW2 mostly which means that Barmouth junction etc is in its full glory.dcduncan wrote:I was going to say that, otherwise great shots. I am not sure that the Cambrian Coast line was ever double red but it looks great.robin wrote:Nice shots, Although many GWR practices by the BR days were no longer observed it was customary whenever possible for the senior loco when double heading to be on the front.
David
), and Ivatt 2mt 2-6-0s . Also Dukedogs were very common, and a number of early GWR outside framers ended there days here. Thanks for the info.BruceB wrote:The Cambrain Line was always classified blue, hense nearly all the the Manors being transfered here towards the end of BR, and the use of them on the Cambrain Express west of Shewsbury. The main reason for the restriction was originally the Barmouth Bridge, although subsquent maintaince ment that the whole line became relatively fraglie quite quickly.
Today the situation is even worse, with locomotives being banned from passing over Barmouth Bridge since the mid 1990s. Hense there has been no steam tours in the area since around about 1994. However, resent work by railtrack and tests with class 37s have ment that this restriction *may* be lifted in the near future.
We can but hope anyway....
Either way with its double red classification, Kings would have certainly never have been permitted here.
Castles and Halls were both classification red, so again were banned.
Motive Power in the area was mainly Manors, Standard 4mt 4-6-0s (come on Robin
Bruce
