Are they just giving it away - or will it cost a lot?
Is the rail weight suitable for us?

--- In corris-discuss@..., Samuel Kennion <samklancs@...> wrote:
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>  Had an idea last night....
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> They are currently replacing the rail on the Manchester Metrolink tram lines
in the city centre.
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> I think that we could use some of the old rail at places like the Pont Evans
crossing. I could phone Metrolink on behalf of the Corris and ask them to give
us some. About 20 - 30 metres of track (40-60m of rail) should be enough for
Pont Evans. Any where else we might need some? Corris one day maybe? We can only
dream about Llwyngwern (sp?) and Ffridd Gate.
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> Just to pre-empt a possible query. The Manchester system uses normal heavy
rail flangways and not the smaller old tram dimensions.
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> If we went ahead with this I'd want to give some indication of when we would
take it away.
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> Sam K.
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