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| Tweet Topic Started: 23 Feb 2008, 12:29 PM (4,141 Views) | |
| MTA | 23 Feb 2008, 12:29 PM Post #1 |
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I have just found this YouTube video of the Exmoor Steam Railway. Looks to be quite an impressive set up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5PiaNwRxKc |
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"If the fascination engendered by locomotion at the present day is so intense, the attractive powers of locomotion in miniature must of necessity be greater still" W.J. Bassett-Lowke. August 1911 | |
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| steves100uk | 23 Feb 2008, 05:57 PM Post #2 |
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I have never been there but it sure looks good |
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| Nick Tozer | 23 Feb 2008, 06:01 PM Post #3 |
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It 'was' an impressive set-up but is sadly no longer open to the public ![]() Regards Nick Edited by Nick Tozer, 12 Jun 2008, 02:16 AM.
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| Alex | 23 Feb 2008, 07:24 PM Post #4 |
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Hi I have seen the video before, very good and i really like the looks of the loco with the tall chimney and big spectical plates gives to loco a Moors Valley feel to it. Doesnt anybody know that name of the loco and where it is now as i couldnt see it clearly as the loco went past. Alex |
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| MTA | 23 Feb 2008, 07:33 PM Post #5 |
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It is 'Lorna Doone' Alex. The name rings a bell, but as to its location I cannot recall
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"If the fascination engendered by locomotion at the present day is so intense, the attractive powers of locomotion in miniature must of necessity be greater still" W.J. Bassett-Lowke. August 1911 | |
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| penrose | 23 Feb 2008, 07:41 PM Post #6 |
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It's 0-6-0T Lorna Doone. She was rebuilt 2001 (or around then) to a 10.25" 0-6-2T and now runs on the Beale Railway in Berkshire. Maybe to confuse matters, there's a new Lorna Doone which is a 0-4-2T and ran at Exbury for a while, but I think is now back at Exmoor. |
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| Alex | 23 Feb 2008, 08:55 PM Post #7 |
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Hi Ah i thought it was Lorna Doone, shame they dont use the larger specticals anymore suppose they make as customers specificy. Alex |
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| penrose | 13 Aug 2008, 12:41 PM Post #8 |
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Just found a set of photos from Exmoor in 1991 on the web, showing Yeo Valley in service. Thought they might be of interest to forum members; I've cheekily embedded a few below, but you can see the full set here.![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Jeffo | 13 Aug 2008, 08:47 PM Post #9 |
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talking to the owner of the rlsr the ther day about exmoor, and apparently, they are going to be doing open days in the next few years, so theres a chance for those of us who have never bin :(, to go Regards Adam |
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| Timbo | 13 Aug 2008, 09:38 PM Post #10 |
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What I love is that from afar, they look like great big NG locos - but look a little closer at those coaches and you'll see some passengers squashed inside. They really do look like well proportioned 2ft gauge stock and surroundings. |
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| glastonrail | 13 Aug 2008, 09:53 PM Post #11 |
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Neat little set of photos there, Anthony!! Great find. Shows perfectly the style of railway that Exmoor try (or at least tried - most users of their locos have gone to create their own style - as is right in my book) to create with their products, and just how a miniature-narrow-gauge railway (words chosen carefully) can fit in to the local landscape. Cheers, Dom Greenop DMR |
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| Nick Tozer | 14 Aug 2008, 02:30 PM Post #12 |
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I have just posted Exmoor Steam Railway 1993 (1) on YouTube ... this first part covers a full-line trip over the railway as it was in 1993 and the second part, Exmoor Steam Railway 1993 (2), shows 'Lorna Doone' in action out from lineside. |
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| penrose | 15 Aug 2008, 11:10 AM Post #13 |
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Thanks Nick, fascinating stuff as always. Your videos show it very much as I can (hazily) remember it on my first visit in 1994 and makes for an interesting comparison with memories from my more "recent" visit in 2001 and a video I borrowed recently which had shots of Mariloo on test in April. P.S. For anyone interested, I understand (and as usual could be completely wrong) that the Stirlands would quite like to take a year off engine building in order to lay around a mile of 2ft gauge track and get a Garratt or two running. |
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| davidgwr | 15 Aug 2008, 11:14 AM Post #14 |
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I would quite like to get a Stirland built loco for Ruislip Lido Railway, but sadly some people there are not so keen on the idea. |
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| Murray Tremellen | 16 Aug 2008, 07:36 PM Post #15 |
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Very interesting photos Charles, well done for finding them It's interesting that Yeo Valley seems to have become a 2-8-2T in those photos - in the postcard view previously posted in the "Exmoor locos" thread she is an 0-8-2T, with a much shorter front-end. Personally I think she was more attractive in her original form, but if those photos are from '91 then she must have been modified very early in her life. I presume the extra wheels must have been to improve riding, unless anyone knows different? |
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