Railway track

[God mode restorations]

Hi. Any of you guys have any connections to British railway/tracks

 

[frank horton]

bits of track is like rocking horse poo.......unobtaineum.....

 

[sako243]

I've got a dozen or so bits that are 6ft long. We discovered them in the garden when laying mains and water pipe. They were a bit bent and cut them into shorter lengths to make them easier to move about.

 

[Erie Fred]

Have you asked at local scrap yards ?
How much do you need ?

 

[m_c]

IIRC there are only two scrap dealers in the UK legally allowed to accept rail.
Any others caught with it will be investigated, and have to explain where they got it, with a risk of prosecution/fines/license removal.

 

[Tangledfeet]

We were driving around Perthshire in February and I noticed several lengths stacked randomly at the side of the road...

 

[Ton-up]

Hi. Any of you guys have any connections to British railway/tracks

Why, do you want a bit??

 

[Redsailor]

If you need a small piece, try a local heritage railway group. I obtained a couple of tons of the stuff that way for boat ballast.

 

[mechman]

Hi. Any of you guys have any connections to British railway/tracks

More info required.

 

[God mode restorations]

Railway track I can get and have some pieces. What I am trying to find is three of the old style chairs. See picture. These came with big square head fixings. I have spoken to a few people and Railway museums so just waiting a reply

 

[lotus_esprit_s1]

When my brother in law moved into his house he demolished and rebuilt the detached double garage / workshop - the demolished garage had a number of old railway rails as roof beams, presumably from when the nearby branch line was closed in the fifties. No scrapyard would touch them, I think he ended up burying them.

 

[cardiffrob]

We kept digging them up, along with 300kg concrete sleepers that had been rolled off of the line and into what became our back garden. Not fun having to dig post holes through them!

Bit big to parcel up.

 

[Master-of-none]

AS1 chair enquire? https://kgjprice.co.uk/components-catalogue/page:4

 

[Milkybars]

@God mode restorations Is this you building a railway to move the cast iron about

 

[God mode restorations]

AS1 chair enquire? https://kgjprice.co.uk/components-catalogue/page:4

Nice one. Cheers

 

[Agroshield]

I have spoken to a few people and Railway museums

If they are not able to assist, perhaps if you speak directly to these people, they can pile a few onto Fizzy's mule and tell it to head south:

VINTAGE RECLAIMED 3 HOLE 1946 CAST IRON RAIL CHAIR | eBay

This Rail Chair is being sold to raise money for the Wensleydale Railway Association (T) Ltd. The chair is marked NER.

www.ebay.co.uk