Wednesday 16 September 2009

Taking Stock

Here are a few pictures of completed stock for the DLR. Some have already been mentioned.


Peco van and Smallbrook Flat


Peco coach. The tension lock is for the middle of the train, the other end has a Kadee.


Hacked about NSE Mk2 Chasis. This will form the basis of a tool/mess van. A similar example will be a bogie coach.

Thursday 10 September 2009

Denslow Light Railway

Finally I've cobbled together a layout in 0-16.5. The premise is a small preservation/tourism affair, partly built on the old (and fictional) Denslow Quarry narrow gauge branch line. The 3 1/4 mile line was used to transport chalk to the mainline railhead at Conch St. Graham. When the quarry closed in the 1960s the narrow gauge line had already been closed 12 years.


Upon closure of the quarry the locomotives and rolling stock were purchased by Colin Bottle, a local 'self made' millionaire and industry buff. He promptly formed an ad hoc preservation society and fronted the money and influence to purchase the p-way and lease the land. By the late 1970s the society was running small trains on public holidays from the terminus at Conch St. Graham up to the quarry loop and back. This continued sporadically for 10 years. When Colin Bottle died in 1989 he left a sizable chunk of his estate to the society, with the wish that the money be spent on extending the line as the quarry was too dangerous and had also been earmarked for use as a landfill.


The line now runs from Conch St. Graham to the new terminus at Cow Lane with two intermediate stops at Cod Hill and Stone Brook - both popular with walkers. The line hosts a yearly World War II weekend featuring period military vehicles and a beer tent.


Rolling stock is mostly of an industrial nature.

Obviously this is all fictional...



Track plan

Current development