I was contacted last week by Keith Barker of the Ely MRC, he had been occupying himself during lock-down sorting out old media files on his PC. He had located some video of a model narrow gauge cement works railway taken at the Stowmarket in 2001 and thought it might be my layout. He was happy for me to post it up on Youtube, so I added a bit of a commentary and it is now there for all to see.

I built 'The Works' in the 1990's and exhibited it for a few years prior to selling it sometime around 2005. I remember driving it down to a man in Romford. I was approached a few years back while exhibiting Fen End Pit by a couple of his friends who told me that he had sadly died not long after buying the layout so I have no idea what happened to it in the end. It was rather fun but a bit impractical for a home setting being nearly 3'6" deep with a fiddle yard hidden under the chalk cliffs at the back, you couldn't put it against a wall and still operate it really. At the time of sale I had almost finished Fen End Pit and needed the room.

Still the video brought back some good memories for me and I hope others enjoy it too.

Thanks to Keith for digging it out.

David