Roger Farnworth Railways

[rogerfarnworth]

RE: Co. Donegal Railways again. ....
Teelin Bay, Teelin Pier and Co. Donegal Railways

What happened to the proposed extension to the Killybegs branch of the Co. Donegal Railways to Teelin Pier?

The short answer is that it did not really get beyond the imaginations of a few folk in the Glean Cholm Cille (Glencolumbkille) and Carrick area of Co. Donegal.

The linked post is a 'flight of fancy'. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/04/26/tee...-railways/

[rogerfarnworth]

RE: The Railways and Tramways of Telford again. ...
The Lilleshall Company's Railways and Tramways served Old Lodge Furnaces and Granville Colliery. This next article looks at that part of their private rail network. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/18/the...-colliery/

[rogerfarnworth]

RE: Tramways in and around Nice, France
A return to Nice is in the offing and I have turned back to books by Jose Banaudo.

Jose Banaudo published a two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, “Nice au fil du Tram.”

This is the first of a series of articles based on the second volume. (Jose Banaudo; Nice au fil du Tram, Volume No. 2: Les Hommes, Les Techniques; Les Editions de Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya, France, 2005). The books were published as French language texts, quotations directly from the books have been translated with the assistance of ‘Google Lens’ and ‘Google Translate’.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/26/the...mes-no-88/

[rogerfarnworth]

RE: The Kingsway Tramway Subway in London. ...
The Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review of November 1963 carried an article by C.S. Dunbar about the Kingsway Tramway Subway. It seemed an opportune moment to focus on the Subway as the southernmost portion of the tunnel was just about to open to motor traffic as the Strand Underpass.

An image in an earlier article about the last few years of London’s tram network prompted some response. .... So, having read his article, I thought that reproducing most of C.S. Dunbar’s article here might be of interest to others. …

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/28/the...ay-london/

Other articles about London's trams can be found earlier on this thread.

[rogerfarnworth]

Derry Port and Harbour Commissioners' Railways. ...
The 'Modern Tramway' Journal of September 1963 had a short article about the Harbour Tramways in Derry, written by J.H. Price. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/10/der...-railways/

Friday 31st August, 1962, saw the closing of the dockside dual-gauge tramways of the Port and Harbour Commissioners in Derry.

[rogerfarnworth]

Re: The First Railways - Derek Hayes
The First Railways: Atlas of Early Railways

Derek Hayes: The Times, HarperCollins, 2017

I picked up a copy of this book in September 2023. It is large format Hardback book of 272 pages. The listed price is £30.00 but my copy cost me just over £10 plus postage and it is in an excellent pre-owned condition. I had anticipated a well-illustrated book which would be a relatively easy read. I was pleasantly surprised to find that while it was an excellent read, it was also a well-researched, scholarly work with: all maps and illustrations properly catalogued and sources noted; a significant bibliography of scholarly works; and a comprehensive index.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/14/the...-railways/

[rogerfarnworth]

Re: Early Railways in Plymouth
Early in the history of Railways, Plymouth used technologies which elsewhere were in use in the mining industries of the British Isles. Wooden and then iron tramroads were used in Plymouth in a more maritime context. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/21/ear...-plymouth/

Quote:The first railways in the area were of wooden rails used during the construction of docks facilities. Some were in use in the Naval Dockyard in 1724, and in 1756 John Smeaton laid some more to help move materials in his workyard on the mainland which was preparing stonework for the Eddystone Lighthouse.

[rogerfarnworth]

RE: Tramways in and around Nice, France again.
The next article in a series following through the second volume of Jose Banaudo's two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, "Nice au fil du Tram."

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/28/the...mes-no-89/

[rogerfarnworth]

Re: Greater Manchester - 'Modern Tramway' 1983
A Rail Strategy for Greater Manchester (1983). …

Reading the ‘Modern Tramway’ Journal of May 1983 in Autumn 2023, took me back to the time when I was working for Greater Manchester Council. The County Engineer was A.E. Naylor. I was working in the Engineer’s office in County Hall.

The ‘Modern Tramway’ carried an article by W.J. Wyse about the then recently released rail strategy for the conurbation.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/10/a-r...ster-1983/

[rogerfarnworth]

RE: Tramways in and around Nice, France
Jose Banaudo writes, "As an extension of the Cannes Tramway route which linked Mandelieu, Cannes and Antibes, the TNL coastal line extended from Cap-d’Antibes to the Menton district of Garavan via Cagnes, Nice, Villefranche, Beaulieu , Monaco, Cap-Martin and Menton. These juxtaposed sections formed a continuous axis of 76 km of interurban tramway which served almost the entire coastline of the Alpes-Maritimes, from the Emite of the Var department to the Italian border.”

The linked article is the first looking at this coastal (littoral) route and looks at the length between Nice and Cap d'Antibes.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/11/la-...mes-no-90/