Scotland Tramway Meeting's

DafyddElvy

DafyddElvy

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We had our first meeting of 2024 on Saturday, we seemed not to have spread word of the date properly with only a couple of folk present.

Dates for future Scotland tramway group meetings are:

09th March
18th May
13th July
21st September
09th November

All meetings will be held at Summerlee Industrial Museum in Coatbridge from 13:00 to 16:00 when the museum closes.
We are in the process of firming up speakers which we'll post here once confirmed.
 
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That is a good place to hold a meeting. It is an unusually well designed museum with excellent exhibits - I can recommend it. In fact, I should be in Scotland and in that area in mid-May - I may show up!
 
I have updated the dates of the meetings.

For anyone interested in joining us, on 09th March we have a talk on the researched someone has done to allow some Edinburgh cable cars, in post conversion to electric traction, to be drawn for 3D printing. Initially the models will be printed in 7mm scale, but being modular watch this space or a separate thread.
 
The next meeting of the TLRS/STG Summerlee tramway group will take place on Saturday 21st September at 13:00 in the STG bothy.

This will be a modeling show and tell rather than a talk. We will have test tracks for 4mm, 7mm and 45mm gauge models so feel free to bing along models you'd like to run.

There is a charge of £1 to cover tea/coffee and biscuits.

We look forward to seeing you there!
 
DafyddElvy said:
I have updated the dates of the meetings.

For anyone interested in joining us, on 09th March we have a talk on the researched someone has done to allow some Edinburgh cable cars, in post conversion to electric traction, to be drawn for 3D printing. Initially the models will be printed in 7mm scale, but being modular watch this space or a separate thread.
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Were the Edinburgh cable cars similar to the San Francisco variety?
 
dunnyrail said:
Cars were different but operation simikar.

Trams in Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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Thank you for the reference. It seems Edinburgh adapted cable for the same reason as SF; steep gradients. That raises a question though, are electric trams able to handle the same gardients as cable? That is, was Edinburgh able to electrify the existing cable routes or did they change the routes? I tried to determine the answer from the WikiPedia article, but am not familiar enough with the city to sort through it. I would expect that cable could handle steeper gradients that electric and perhaps SF's grades are just too steep to electrify, discounting the tourist aspect.
 
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