Talk:Sierra Leone Government Railway

Curves?
What are the sharpest curves used by the old SRGR?

Tabletop 10:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * If I knew it would be in the article :-) --Michael Johnson 00:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Since the line is closed, it is no longer mentioned in Janes. Tabletop 09:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Calthrop
Here is a coincidence. Everard Calthrop, a strong advocate of of narrow gauge railways, particularly of 2' 6" gauge, opened a railway consultancy in Liverpool in 1892, and later advocates a narrow gauge railway connecting Liverpool and Manchester in a competition run by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. In 1893 the LCC promotes the construction of the Sierra Leone Government Railway, which was subsequently built in 2' 6" gauge. Was there any connection? --Michael Johnson (talk) 01:38, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * It is possible that Calthrop had an influence on the choice of gauge for the SLGR, as Calthrop was promoting the 2' 6" gauge and co-ordinated plans for axle-loads and rolling stock designs in the 1890s at about the same time as the SLGR started. The two are mention in the same issue of a newspaper(s) without any definite causality.    Tabletop (talk) 02:49, 17 July 2012 (UTC)