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Railbus Trials

wiggoforgold

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Back in 1963, Diddington featured heavily in that report, and not in a good way. Despite this, Eastern Region carried on looking at ways they might improve the services at Diddington. Viewers of my gallery may have noticed the attempt to use a redundant Wisbech and Upwell diesel tram on the agricultural tramway back in 1967, but before that they tried using an AC cars railbus on the passenger services. I've found some pictures of this event, which are attached.

 

The truth is, I found an old railbus model when I was having a tidy up, and 46444 was visiting, so he took some pictures. The railbus is a Dapol model, assembled pretty much straight from the packet, on a Branchlines chassis, with a Branchlines interior.

 

Its not my first attempt at the railbus kit. The first was back in about 1965. I went in to Huntingdon to buy an Airfix Beaufighter. The shop didn't have one, so I got a rail bus instead. That cost 17.5p (they called it 3/6d back then), and I've made a few kits since.

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Nice railbus. Full of character, although aestethic wonders they were not! :-)

 

I like the overview of your layout that these photos gives. It's all very nicely balanced and uncluttered, I think. We often spend a lot of time and effort on buildings and stock etc, but your layout shows how important grass and groundcover is in giving that "real look". Here it is done to perfection, I think.

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