I have asked about that, they say not really enough time or room with a 2 foot 6 inch gauge that only takes 50 minutes end to end to be worth the bother, in the winter when no scheduled trains before using diesel on maintenance trains it may have been done? But today only as a demo.
Not really miniaturisation, the wider the gauge the faster the train can go, the narrower the gauge the tighter the curves can be, there was originally a three rail part of the line where both narrow gauge and standard gauge could use same track so goods could be transferred, however the standard gauge stopped running, so the narrow gauge became passenger only, and being so slow in real terms tourist only, and the track that ran through middle of Welshpool was removed, the standard gauge is now reinstated but the link has never been reinstated, I know in Porthmadog the Welsh highland railway and road share the same bridge across a river, but this is rather a short run, don't think running for ½ mile through the middle of the town sharing the same road as pedestrians is really likely again?
Yes however when you look at maintenance cost of this
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Fun though, I go down every Wednesday to play with them. Mind you last week wanted me to repair mens loo, not really the job I wanted, reconditioning a ground frame far better, did not even know what a ground frame was before I started.Boys and their expensive toys
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