Train Trivia 2/15/06 (ANSWERED)

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Anonymous

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Train Trivia 2/15/06 (ANSWERED)

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:39 PM

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in England has 13 miles of 1ft 3 inch gauge track. Besides being a tourist attraction the railway also hauls two hundred students to and from school each day.

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andrechapelon

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Posted by andrechapelon on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:44 PM

1 foot, 3 inches.

Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch:

http://www.rhdr.org.uk/rhdr/rhdr.html

Andre

It's really kind of hard to support your local hobby shop when the nearest hobby shop that's worth the name is a 150 mile roundtrip.

tomikawaTT

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:09 PM

And would you believe they actually operate a school train? The local education authorities finance it.

The only other dedicated school train I have ever seen was on the Kiso Forest Railway, running on rails exactly twice as far apart (and still only half of Russia's most common gauge.)

andrechapelon

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Posted by andrechapelon on Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:07 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lotus098

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