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A 1:32 scale representation of an 18" gauge tramway running from a works to a wharf on a river. The initial inspiration comes from the Brede Waterworks tramway in East Sussex near Hastings but in no way will this be a model of that particular line. The choice of a large scale is so that the models are still of a similar size to OO gauge locos and wagons, in fact the gauge could be 16.5mm and not be that far out, and in some ways this project is forward looking to a time when I may not be quite so agile and nimble-fingered.

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Building the Sand Hutton wagons in 1:32

It's been a while since I added to this blog, but it is time to report on some progress. I mentioned in an earlier entry that I had made a master for resin casting of one of the War Department wagons used at Deptford and later sold to the Sand Hutton Light Railway. A drawing by Roy Link of one of these wagons appears in K.E. Hartley's booklet on Sand Hutton, and the same drawing was also published in Link's Narrow Gauge and Industrial magazine. Roy Link's drawings were always good quality so a 1
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