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Cylindrical body is not an efficient way to utilize the loading gauge, the interior space of the 500 series is obviously smaller than other types of Shinkansen trains. Although it's appearance is indeed distinctive, the imitation of airplane design that was popular in the past seems unnecessary now.
This is a really small port and pier, had the railway company really investigated the potential traffic? I doubt very much if the catch from all those fishing boats at Findhorn could fill a railway van.
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Yes, it had, the WSR tracks at the Western Pier and GWR tracks at the Eastern Pier.
I'm curious how much traffic these small harbours can provided.
I think the tracks for slideways and mobile cranes can hardly be called "railway", a harbour railway must at least had freight (at most) traffic from other places.
When I was reading about Newquay, a very small harbour that can only accommodate brigs and boats, but which once had a standard gauge harbour railway, I wondered if it was the smallest harbour in the UK to had a harbour railway? At least in standard gauge system.
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