Rolling Stock - Not exactly prototypical
I have Private owner wagons from the 40s; an 04 early-crest shunter from the 50s and a Nun from the 60s.
I wanted a small shunter and the 04 had just come out screaming “cute”. I do have a Dapol Terrier but it’s not well and doesn’t like going forwards or backwards, so I’m waiting for a new batch of those before I pick up another one -second-hand wasn’t the way to go there ☹
Rather than painting numbers on a set of 16t mineral wagons, I wanted to be able to identify each wagon cleanly by sight, hence why the PO wagons in the main. You can argue that the PO wagons have simply not been repainted yet (there were a fair few and I can imagine they weren’t over-painted over night). So we can pretend its “not too far after privatisation” from that aspect.
We’ll have to forgive my scenery and figures as being from a variety of ages; I shouldn’t have built the coffee shop as such for instance, although, luckily, we all know that Grace Bros. was established in the 19th Century so caters for all of the 20th century (once windows got that big, of course). I’ve decided against fitting lights in the buildings, as I suspect you’d find less well-lit buildings in the 1950s at night compared to now; I may invest in a LED for the pub tho’ – I suspect that would have been glowing at all times of day or night (opening hours permitting).
Motor vehicles on the roads are not fixed, so I can, as time goes by, refine the set and ensure I have some 1952ness about the roads.
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