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Foxfield 1950s
rufuskins Tue Mar 26 2013, 07:39
Route Name = Foxfield
Route Author = Chris Sanderson & Daniel Wookey
Route Location = Blythe Bridge, Stoke on Trent
Route Mileage = 5.5 miles
Route Era = 1950s
Route Source = this is no longer available from UKTS following its closure.
Additional files required to be installed = UK Finescale.
Route Description =
An MSTS route no longer available to download as noted above.
Activities and relevant stock are no longer available from the UKTS library.
“This route is a depiction of the Foxfield Railway in the 1950's. Six-coupled saddle and side tank engines would haul up to 8 full coal wagons from the colliery to the summit up the 1in19, where they would be assembled into rake of 20-30 wagons for the trip down to the exchange sidings or the landsale yard at Caverswall. Here they would be left in the sidings, and a long rake of empties would be taken up to the summit up firstly a 1in40 and then a 1in33 gradient where they would make the trip down to the colliery. This is the daily work which was carried out for many decades until 1967 when the line closed.”
Route Author = Chris Sanderson & Daniel Wookey
Route Location = Blythe Bridge, Stoke on Trent
Route Mileage = 5.5 miles
Route Era = 1950s
Route Source = this is no longer available from UKTS following its closure.
Additional files required to be installed = UK Finescale.
Route Description =
An MSTS route no longer available to download as noted above.
Activities and relevant stock are no longer available from the UKTS library.
“This route is a depiction of the Foxfield Railway in the 1950's. Six-coupled saddle and side tank engines would haul up to 8 full coal wagons from the colliery to the summit up the 1in19, where they would be assembled into rake of 20-30 wagons for the trip down to the exchange sidings or the landsale yard at Caverswall. Here they would be left in the sidings, and a long rake of empties would be taken up to the summit up firstly a 1in40 and then a 1in33 gradient where they would make the trip down to the colliery. This is the daily work which was carried out for many decades until 1967 when the line closed.”
Last edited by rufuskins on Mon Dec 18 2023, 12:37; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : Amended to reflect the closure of UKTS in August/September 2023.)
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