Thanks, we try our best!

Don't forget to pop by if you are ever in London!

so the cars are mini; I was thinking they had giant-sized volunteers tipping over the gondolas.

They are of a classic design that were used in mines all over the UK back in the day, These are the nicest sets I have seen anywhere.

@@Pesmogit helps that 10 of them were delivered new only last year

Thanks! We had another 10 manufactured last year by Severn Lamb! They look superb!

Thanks Jason, hope to welcome you down soon!

Thanks Kevin! Hope to see you soon.

Not quite a hundred years, the railway has been in operation in some form since the 40’s and as a Society we have run it since 1979.

Hope you enjoyed your ride last weekend!

Thanks Pete, it's a relaxing railway to operate - we are run entirely by volunteers and lucky enough to have over 130 active members!

I was a third generation NZR railway man. Both grandfathers, several uncles and a few cousins were all employed by the NZR.

this is actually clever ngl

That name has actually been used internally when she has misbehaved on occasion 😉

I wonder how 'Ruislip Lido Railway' translate into the Cyrillic alphabet.

absoliutno... soglaius"...ot Nov Zelandoi.

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We are proud that the railway is operated entirely by our dedicated group of volunteers. We don't receive any external regular funding, the operation is self financing from revenues collected from our Train Tickets, Special Events, Gift Shop and Tearoom.

I think most would argue the railway is a big blanket comparatively to what it was in 1961! It's been expanded beyond all recognition.

As the ballast wagons aren't braked we have a restriction on the number that can operate with locomotive only braking. You will see a flat wagon on the trains, this is added to provide additional braking force.

@@RuislipLidoRailway oh I knew there would be a common sense reason why, just saying it would be nice lol

As at 13:42 , the train is ‘cutting the points’, meaning going against the set direction of the mechanism. This is acceptable and normal when technical and operational guidelines permit (guessing, but Lido staff know…). In tram or light rail, spring-set permanent points are also part of the safety in normal operations, but this particular one -seems to be held by its gravity weighted handle (guessing).- (a combo…?) Maintenance services are also not ‘normal operations’, hence no tokens, and strict radio control (in general, guessing again…). [Edit: 14:56 the point in question is manually locked, local override by staff & radio protocol…] In “big rail” cutting manual points (switches) is a thing in shunting yards at low speeds, but those points are marked. On mainline or at speed, points are always ‘in control’ and interlocked. Cutting them would destroy things, and are as bad as SPADs - Job’s lost…😅

@@musiqtee Some points on our railway are designed to be pushed through by the passage of a train and reset to where they were previously so that a train coming from the opposite direction goes the way we want it to. At 14:56 the driver is changed point manually for the direction he requires and inserts a bolt & lynch pin into the point to stop it being thrown completely the other way but this still allows a train to push through

@@RuislipLidoRailway Thanks! I was vaguely “right”, intended to answer the OP that ‘train weight’ didn’t rock the lever - it was merely moving it when cutting through. But, I got carried away - as I usually am… (and how I end up learning from actual insights, like you shared above…)

I too was surprised to see 2 trains entering the loop at Haste Hill, both at the same time. I just hope this was a once-off incident...

As an ex signalman on B R back in the day , that caught my eye as well. At best I would expect some run off points in case of overruns.

The method adopted here is fully approved for our operations and risk assessed, run off distance is provided for a train which is only going at 5mph. Appreciate the feedback on the BR days, but thankfully we aren't living in those days or indeed a BR railway. Safety is a balance of risk (likelihood and severity) with mitigations to provide a latent risk profile. You can't compare our railway at a maximum speed of 8mph with processes and procedures adopted for railways which run at 125mph...

She pulls the same in either direction but the reason she was working as she was that day was because for operational reasons she couldn’t run round her train each time. It was thought better to have the driver facing the wagons when propelling them so he could see the hand signals from the operative tipping the wagons as they were being unloaded and easily spot if anything went wrong while travelling to/from the worksite. This just so happened to be in the direction of the empty train going back to be loaded.

@@RuislipLidoRailway Thanks, I knew there must have been a good reason.

We have a couple of very Senior Digger Operators within our volunteer team.

Yes 1ft or 12 inches as we usually say.

No we don’t have anything like that as we don’t get enough snow to need one.

@@RuislipLidoRailway fair enough.

Yeah Thats a good question

If you are just talking about the wagons carrying the ballast, 8 of those loaded was 6 tons. Add the loco and wagon for braking and the total train weight was 11 tons

@thedaddie ha aperto la strada alle mie curiosità di appassionato di treni!! Provo a indovinare i pesi a vuoto dei vari rotabili o almeno circa: 200 kg i vagoni a 2 assi, 1000 kg il vagone 4 assi, 4000 kg la locomotiva 4 assi, 1500 kg (senza acqua e tender) la locomotiva a vapore. Ci sono andato vicino @ruilsliplidorailway ?

Yes they do! In fact nearly all of our vehicles have brakes, the only few that don’t are some of our older maintenance wagons.

The railway makes a profit but we have a 100% volunteer staff so all proceeds go back into making the railway even better

Its in the UK, on the west side of London. 👍 The railway takes visitors to one of the few inland beaches in the UK

@@Pesmog 😄thanks for the reactie 😂

= will not end well.

Sorry you don't like them - we do 🤣

No.

Thanks for sharing!