London Banter - View Single Post - Epping-Ongar Railway: Worth a look

TheOneKEA · November 8th 04, 08:19 PM posted to uk.transport.london

(Boltar) wrote in message . com...
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and a DMBS) was in relatively good condition, considering its age; it
seemed to have no trouble running at the current linespeed of 16mph,

Is there any servicable train outside of a Hornby train set that couln't run
at 16mph?

I don't know. But the volunetter I was speaking to said that the
engines on the 117 were problematic; thus, I was commenting that
despite these problems, it had no trouble at the slow speed it was
moving at.

The P-Way was OK, albeit restricted in two places to 10mph running due
to poor rail alignment, and festooned with broken and discarded power
rail insulators, some still upright and empty. I spoke to one of the
volunteers on the return trip from North Weald, who stated that the

Did you ask them why those idiots ripped up the power rails in the first place?

I decided that it would be in poor taste. The only reference made to
it was that the volunteers had not yet had the chance to remove the
insulators properly.

In my honest opinion, the EOR is worth a look.

I think you may be in a minority there

*shrug*

Does anybody have more information on the unmarked single-aspect inner
home at Ongar? What was its purpose?