West Highland Railway Snow Fence Spline 3 bars
The bleak open moorlands through which the WHR runs are regularly subjected to some of the worst weather seen in the UK, and in the early days, the snow fences were an essential strategy in preventing drifts from building up in cuttings and across particularly exposed sections.
More efficient snow ploughs and more accurate weather forecasting have altered the way the railways cope with snow, and the intensive upkeep required to maintain the fences means that they've long been abandoned. The vertical planks that held back the snow have largely gone now, but the cross battens and upright posts and supports made from old rail have mostly survived, and the skeletal remains of the fences march across many miles of the moorland to this day, a prominent feature of the railway landscape.
In real life, the state of the fences is much more haphazard than a single spline can replicate, so for the purists I've created both single and triple crossbar splines as well as some intermediate set pieces which represent individual sections with more complex formations
Тип: track