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Penhelig to Aberdovey is not far.

The crossing at Tonfanau Station has the recently restored crossing cottage, and a farmhouse where the crossing is the only access. All of these buildings were derelict in the 90s.

This earlier map shows the line on Portsoy Harbour. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.4&lat=57.68404&lon=-2.69057&layers=257&right=GoogleSatHyb

It's a chimney. Rather confusing at first glance.

The other two items look like single ends of broken sleepers for very early round bar rail, such rail being turned down at the ends to form a very flat inverted U shape. The one with 2 holes being a joint sleeper to accept the adjacent ends of 2 rails. The other being an intermediate chair sleeper.

The last 3 coaches in the above video had no orange stripe near the roof.

Matlock, the county town of Derbyshire.

Northwest of Wrexham on the old line to Mold.

A very informative and interesting reply there, thank you.

Im certainly no expert on these matters, but why not dredge the Conwy back to the depth it had years ago when it didn't flood like this. Boats back to Trefriw Quay would surely be good for tourism.

There were many such for agricultural purposes, in the Fens region, where I spent my early childhood. One which intrigued me was the quite extensive 2ft gauge (I think) system running to sundry farms, northward from Fleet station on the Midland & Great Northern Joint network's Spalding -- Sutton...

Thanks for posting these, I am spending far too long tracing these routes on google maps. I spend time down near Tarbes, and have been exploring the old line from Auch to Vic-en-Bigorre, via Mirande. It seems hard to find maps of disused French lines, the best one I have found so far is...

How about turning DVT into a seated DVT and running 1 power car, 4 mk3 and one of these.

Known as a Semi Supported Joint. The introduction of tamping machines made them obsolete, as the different sleeper gaps at the joint made their use difficult.

Is it the section of embankment between Bridgford Road, and Radcliffe Road? They were originally flood arches before West Bridgford was developed. I read that the River Trent levels were altered with the building of Holme Lock and they became redundant. As for the partitioning, air raid...