As shown before in my blog, I have been modifying various bits and pieces to try to create a plausible set of rolling stock for this Great Southern Railway, including a Wainwright C Class (from the Great British Locomotives magazine series of static 00 gauge models, mounted on a hacked-about Hornby Jinty chassis, and with clack valves and plumbing liberated from a LSWR 700 series by a club member who is turning one into a North British Railway engine!) and an Electrotren continental 0-6-0 (which
So, a fortuitous group of events occurred: I gained a new Hornby 700 class loco, I unearthed my old photographic base, which was in surprisingly good condition, alongside which I found some lumps of steam coal which had been donated by a friend with a steamroller. The result?
Bill the fireman looked at the lump of coal again. " 'Ow the 'ell am I supposed to get that through the firebox door?!" "Never mind that, lad," said his driver, "Just get it on the tender and you can use the 'ammer
As the Great Southern Railway is set in a real location (near Guildford in Surrey, the meeting point of the LBSCR, SECR and LSWR), I felt it would be necessary to have some representative rolling stock from various pre-grouping companies, especially the "local" ones.
As the layout is to be set either pre- or post-war (c.1910 or c.1920), but pre-grouping, I appear to have placed myself in a position where the vast majority of RTR private owner wagons are unsuitable, being based on the RCH 192
A house move a few months ago has meant that a space has become available for a new layout along one wall of a bedroom - I have been gifted a 4m long wall (a shade over 13 feet) and so plans have begun for a branch line terminus run by the fictional Great Southern Railway. As yet, only a few details of this railway company have been discovered, though as your author is writing a history of the line, more information should be forthcoming - follow this blog for any new revelations!
The track
