The Riverside Loco Works was an idea I came up with for a video game where locomotives from preservation are serviced  as fast as they would have in the steam era. (I watched a 30s film where an LMS loco was under general repair and was out in under two weeks!) This idea has now been incorporated into the Castle Rock project as the sheds that the railway heritage society and the colliery society share for repairs to their stock.

I’ve created a plan to build a small part of this loco works in O gauge as a photographic diorama so I can photograph individual rolling stock with a suitable background. This diorama will probably accompany the main layout during exhibitions as a place to store locomotives when not in use (since the layout will at first be D.C. therefore only one locomotive can be on the track at one time)

This diorama will probably be the first to be finished since it’s small and easy to make. The Castle Rock railway has a wide range of locomotives from across Britain (and even the world if you count the BR-52 and the S160s) and require a place to service them that has a wide selection of parts. The loco works are capable of creating parts from scratch therefore there has been many a plan to start building locomotives from scratch too. Locos like the Bulleid diesels or even a replica of the Zaamurets armoured train. 

The works also assist other railways in the upkeep of their locomotives and provide uncommon parts and boiler servicing too.