Trackmobile
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Trackmobile by Glyn Baker as part of the Geograph project.
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Trackmobile
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 20 May 2006
A natty little railcar built in 1965, resides at Image Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch. There is a chance that if “Novelty”, built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite had won the Rainhill trials in 1829 the rail network might have developed more like modern roads with small cars like this one rather than the overgrown colliery haulage system which grew out of Stephenson’s ideas. However, in those days freight was the real money spinner so small rail cars were only ever used for maintenance work. You can see two London Underground Trains in the background.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.647015
Longitude
0.807887