Lambing Flat wrote:
You are partially correct Graham, some ex CR locomotives did end up
on a branch to Mt
Everest, but not under the ownership of the TNR. The branchline in question is, in fact, aNow that's interesting because these locos were a QR design which were built by Walkers - some going to the QR & some to the CR, so I wonder if a QR engine was mixed at Walkers, and somehow made it to the NNR. The NNR by the way was great system in the colonial days and sported a number of very modern refinements for its time. These included the telegraph and an early diesel introduced by the yanks during the war - one of the GE type like the NSWGR 79 class.
branch of the Nepalese National system, and is built to a gauge of 3' 6", (give or take a
1/16th or two, as there has been no track maintenance since the early '50s). The locos in
question were three members of the CR NM class 4-8-0s, the numbers of which I don't have
immediately to hand.
A "service" of sorts is believed to run approximately three times aI've seen Stephen's work, and really love the way he plays light over his subject. He did some marvellous shots in Japan in 1959 of Mt Fuji. Its unlikely anyone will ever shoot Mt Fuji just the way he did - it was magical.
month, depending on the depth of the snow. I understand that the train is known locally by
a phrase in the language of Nepal that roughly translates as "A last ditch conveyance for
mad Yetis". Little is known about the rolling stock used, other than there is believed to
be some. Intrepid photographer, Stephen Howard, projected a number of slides taken on his
1996 expedition to this amazing line at a recent first Friday night meeting, but since the
weather conditions were absolutely atrocious during his visit, little detail of the train
is visible, the scene being one of unrelieved white.
With regard to rolling stock, I know that eliptical roofed carriages resembling dogboxes were used at the turn of the century, but whether these survived the cold I have no idea. I don't believe the NSWGR dogboxes would have stood too many winters at - 20 deg C.
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