Hi All

More details of the prototype

The layout is a model of a mineral tramway, and not a railway. The difference is that a tramway can either go along it's own right of way, or along a public road, either in the road surface or on the verge.

To build such a tramway the permission from the local highway authority to cross or go along public roads is all that is required, together with the purchase of any land required for depots and private rights sections. No acts of parliament are required.

A maximum speed of 15 mph where the tramway is on the verge, 5 mph when crossing public roads and 25mph when on a private right of way are imposed by the Tramways Act.

Lisa

The only restriction on the radius of curves, is whether the locomotives and rolling stock can negotiate them, when a traversed at an appropriate speed laid down by either the highway authority or the tramway operator.