5Bel Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Hi All, Bit of a teaser for you. These pictures were taken on my travels with the Royal Air Force. I wasn't expecting to find any railways here at all. Good luck trying to identify it, like I said I wasn't expecting to find railways here at all. Cheers for now, Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Hi All, Bit of a teaser for you. These pictures were taken on my travels with the Royal Air Force. I wasn't expecting to find any railways here at all. Good luck trying to identify it, like I said I wasn't expecting to find railways here at all. Cheers for now, Ian Falkland Islands..? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunningduck Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Dammit Controller, my thoughts exactly, I'll go as far as to narrow it down to Port Stanley, possibly a wool or whalemeat export warehouse? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Bel Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 Hi Guys, Not bad at all, though it's not Stanley. I knew about the railway at Stanley. I will keep the answer under my (Benny) hat for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardybloke Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Hi Guys, Not bad at all, though it's not Stanley. I knew about the railway at Stanley. I will keep the answer under my (Benny) hat for now. Hmmm... 'Benny' still ( ) makes me think South Atlantic... did the whaling station on South Georgia have a tramway? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Bel Posted February 9, 2010 Author Share Posted February 9, 2010 Hi, No not South Georgia, never been there. Though I did try to get on a trip there once. Cheers, Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted February 9, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 9, 2010 After searching around this site http://www.railwaysofthefarsouth.co.uk/ could it be one of the 4 railways found on Ascension Island ?? Must admit that my first thought was the Falklands - the site quoted above has a lot of information about the line from Camber to the radio station at Moody Brook. Also mentions Port Stanley harbour railway as well as remains at San Carlos, Goose Green and Port Howard. South Georgia is also covered in a separate article. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Bel Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 Hi, I have just had a look at the website from the link in the above post. I wish I had known about all these railways in the Falklands and Ascension Island whilst I was still serving. I did five four month tours of the Falklands and spent quite a bit of time at Ascension as well. The location of my photos is Albermarle sealing station, on the southern tip of West Falkland. I took these photos in 1997 while stationed at 751SU Mount Alice. I don't know if there was any motive power other than human. Thanks for your interest, Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted February 11, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2010 Thanks Ian So we were right about the Falklands but looking on a map, Albemarle is about as far away from Stanley as you can get. Did a 'Google' search on 751SU Mount Alice and got a link to a facebook site with a stack of photos - looks like a hell of place Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Bel Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 Hi Mike, Mt Alice certainly was one hell of a place. We lived in ISO containers for four months and there were only three windows on the whole site. Our only connection with the outside world were the Helicopters!! Good Times. Incidently I did a google search myself and I am in at least one of the photos on that facebook site. Might even join it myself. Cheers for now, Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.