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Gareth liked thb17's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
I believe the loop is a constraint. I am sure someone will clarify? The thing is if you never try and grow you end up standing still and I think, sustainable growth is the bedrock of the preservation movement. Obviously there are lines that are...
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Gareth liked Chris M Jones's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
Absolutely agree with almost everything in the first sentence. However, whilst a longer railway probably wouldn't attract non-enthusiast passengers, I DO think that the passengers who came would enjoy a longer journey even more, especially as...
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Gareth liked JWKB's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
I would suggest you probably haven’t seen the section between Conwil and Llanpumsaint. The views are totally different from the rest of the line and are fairly unique with no signs of modernity and more akin to the step sided gorges southern...
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Gareth liked jamesd's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
Lets be honest, nowhere on the route from Abergwili to Llanpumsaint can be called a "destination". Llanpumsaint has a pub but not much else so whilst the journey there would be longer, the scenery will be broadly similar to the latter stages of...
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Gareth odgovara u temi The Gwili Railway thread.
How long was the loop and platforms at Conwil ? Looking longer term I wonder how long before a longer passing loop might be needed at Dan y Coed.
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Gareth liked pmh_74's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
Wasn't that based on bypassing the Gwili section, including quite a bit of tunnelling, though?
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Gareth liked JWKB's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
It would be a different story if neither of the towns you meantioned where still connected to the network but the both are. Now imagine if that 750m actually existed what it could do to enchance journey times on the CWL, Cambrain and the West...
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