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Advantages: Fresh air, Steam Train, Nature Disadvantages: Hard Seats
The BreconMountainRailway
A narrow Gauge line That runs beside the Taff Fechan Reservoir in Wales.
The Station building at Pant is built into the side of the hill at the starting point of this railway. It is built mainly on the track bed of the old Brecon & Merthyr Railway. After this was closed, like so many others in the 60's the land was sold to local farmers.
When in 1972 an engineer was looking for a site to run renovated narrow gauge engines he decided upon this area. He was unable to obtain the site of the original Pant Station so a new one with workshops was built slightly further down the hill.
The station opens at 09.30am and the first train is at 11.00am
The season is from end March to End of October. On some days in peak season the final daily train is at 05.00pm rather than at 04.00pm
Some days from April to ...
Advantages: fine views preserved trams Disadvantages: hard seats
Snaefel MountainRailway
This was the first mountainrailway in Britain. Work started in January 1895 on the construction and finishing in only seven months. This railway is different to the others in that it has a gauge of 3ft 6". This to give a greater stability in crosswinds. The company that built it was formed in 1894
It also is fitted with the Fell Patent which is a centrally mounted horizontal rail. This was to be used for additional traction and breaking purposes coming down.
These brakes, whilst still fitted are rarely used. An alternative roof mounted system with capacity for regenerative breaking was installed.What this means is that the motors are turned into generators and the effort of generating current acts as a brake.
The line can be thought of as in two sections. From Laxey to Bungalow. Here the road ...
Advantages: None Disadvantages: POOR VALUE & SAFETY CONCERNS.
I travelled with my family to this railway by car from the West Midlands in 2007,we found the fares and food prices in the cafe to be exorbitant and the cost for a day out here came to almost £200. POOR VALUE INDEED.
We also found out that the company were in severe financial difficulties and were forced to make their highly skilled maintenance staff redundant to keep the railway afloat, apparently their highly skilled maintenance machinist who had worked there for almost 20 years was the first to go.The staff that remained there to keep the railway running seemed to be extremely anxious about the safety aspect of the railway from a maintenance point of view.When we were last there several years earlier, the loco actually came off the track,though no one was in any danger of being hurt,but it does make you wonder what the scenario ...
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