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« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2010, 23:18:23 »
Indeed, took me a long time to find the answer. My two rail atlases had no reference to it. There's a wide variety of gauges on cliff railways in the UK▸ (United Kingdom) ranging from 1067mm to 1800mm.
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« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2010, 23:32:24 »
Does anyone know what the cliff railway in bridgenorth runs on - or does that not count?
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« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2010, 00:07:36 »
Well, it runs on rails.  Wink 1067mm (3'6") apart.

Apparently the steepest cliff railway in the UK▸ (United Kingdom) as well at 64% (approx 1 in 1^).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgnorth_Cliff_Railway
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« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2010, 03:35:04 »
Yes - Bridgenorth Cliff Railway was the other one I had for 1067mm ...

Just my wide 35000 mm to go ... can the biggest really be last? ... and the mysterious northern (Scottish) 914mm that you'll still find some track around if you look hard.
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« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2010, 05:14:05 »
There's various bits of the hydro scheme railway east of Fort William still in place - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochaber_Narrow_Gauge_Railway. That was 3' gauge (aka 914mm).

And I suspect that the pipeline fabrication line north of Wick is the same. http://www.subsea7.com/cms/files/File/Wick_Base_%28FSS%29%282%29.pdf
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« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2010, 07:11:43 »
I don't know about the line north of Wick either ... didn't even know it existed!   Yes - I was thinking of the Lochaber line.   There are many more pictures, about 2 years old, at http://alanmitchell.fotopic.net/c1239040.html  and I would be pretty sure you can still see some of the rails.

Now 35000 ...
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« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2010, 10:37:46 »
The one north of Wick can be seen on Multimap at http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=nd330580&countryCode=GB#map=58.505,-3.15136|14|4&dp=os&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:58.50498:-3.15144:14|nd330580|nd330580.
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« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2010, 11:11:15 »
Is 35000 for something like a huge dockside crane?
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« Reply #23 on: August 23, 2010, 12:11:16 »
.. or a boat lift on a canal?
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« Reply #24 on: August 23, 2010, 12:36:15 »
1600mm is also in use in the UK▸ (United Kingdom), can anyone name where?
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« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2010, 13:04:52 »
Quote from: Zo^ on August 23, 2010, 12:36:15
1600mm is also in use in the UK▸ (United Kingdom), can anyone name where?
Northern Ireland.
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« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2010, 19:57:04 »
Lots more gauges out there.

Take a look at this site:

http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/index.htm

Strangest one, I thought, was the private 'cliff' railway used to get stock into Boots in Torquay.
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« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2010, 21:46:51 »
35000 Barrow for building submarines?
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« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2010, 21:56:24 »
Quote from: eightf48544 on August 23, 2010, 21:46:51
35000 Barrow for building submarines?

Not to my knowledge ... in fact from Barrow it's just about as far as you can travel and still be in England!
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« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2010, 22:03:29 »
OK so that makes it Cornwall or Kent?

Goonhilly Downs one of the aerials?
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