(17 June 2013, 11:58)Tartar Horde Wrote: (17 June 2013, 11:50)NorthernRaider Wrote: BEER on the south coast is where Pecorama is the model railway village and the home of PECO model railways.
South Coast of Devon?
Yup BEER on the south coast of Devon
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
(17 June 2013, 13:12)Skean Dhude Wrote: NR,
You make some good points there, well worth consideration.
I think you don't consider the road network enough though. The road network extends much further than the rail or canal network and could be recovered for use depending on the number of survivors. Cars will still be available although not running on petrol or diesel and without the restrictions in place now we should get quite a few years out of them, certainly until we can rebuild them. With lack of food compitition in the UK and us not exporting food we should be able to grow enough agrifuel for our needs.
If we recover some power stations we may be able to power our local transport, underground, railways, trams, etc. are all feasible at a less complex tech level.
This expands the areas we can recover and power allows us to use mechanical advantage to increase productivity.
Roads unless kept maintaind will disapear or become blocked within 3 years with fallen trees etc plants growing over it. Roads will be LABOUR intensive. Trains need Water / Wood or Coal, Some grease to work for decades,Tracks and ballast can and do last decades longer than tarmac roads. Cars need oil, refined petrolium products, tyres that will rot away along with hoses, wipers and other perishable products. A boat needs a sail or oars or a horse to pull it. A choo choo or boat is harder to hijack than a car on a long abandoned road.
Thats my thinking anyway. Railways can be sustainable without imported or expensive resources.
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