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Pictures of 'The Works' - ON14

Fen End Pit

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While sorting out the new railway room I came across a packet of old photographs including several of my old 14mm narrow gauge layout called 'The Works'. This was a cement works that featured lots of skips, war department bogie wagons and even 3 feet of standard gauge with an Impetus models Hudswell Clark. I sold the layout about 10 years ago to a chap in Essex (Romford I think) and I was told by a couple of his friends at a show a few years back that he had sadly died so I have no idea if it is still in existence. I've still got quite a bit of 14mm gauge stock and may one day build something again in that scale, but for now I thought people might like to see some of the pictures.

 

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Having followed the 'Vespa Diaries' in Bylines I'd like to think that the author made it to 'The Works'.

 

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The Hudswell Clarke never really had far to travel, just shuffling up and down 3 foot of track. This is another typical example of the rule that whenever you build a locomotive, however obscure, someone in this case Ixion will produce one ready to run eventually though it did take them 20 years.

 

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At the back of the works an incline ran up the chalk face to reach a distant clay bit. In front of this, in part of the disused quarry, was the narrow gauge engine shed.

 

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At the bottom of the incline were a pair of sidings where the wagons which went up and down the incline could be assembled into rakes prior to a trip into the factory.

 

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This little Simplex was what started it all, Allan Sibley brought it, and a copy of issue 4 of 'Industrial and Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling Review' to a meeting of the Cambridge Area Group of the Scalefour society. I later bought it off him when his interests turned to 'more normal' railways, specifically things Great Northern.

 

I hope you will forgive this flight of nostalgia.

 

thanks

David

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Craigw

Still one of my favourite On14 layouts David, one of those that persuaded me to dabble and get distracted by two foot gauge.

 

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