eastglosmog Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Hi everyone. Just to introduce myself, having recently joined the forum. I have only recently restarted railway modelling, after a hiatus of some 25 years( seduced by a Bachmann Dukedog), After a fair amount of doodling I have set out to build a model based on the first (1861) East Gloucestershire railway as it might have been c 1946 if the GWR had not got cold feet and pulled the plug in 1862. Having also discovered the old Buscot Estate railway, I have taken some more liberties with history and imagined that Robert Tertius Campbell's sugar beet distillery and industrialization of the Buscot estate in 1869 had been a commercial success (well, it might have been if there had been a railway to transport the goods and not just old father Thames). So my model is based on a halt on the East Gloucestershire Railway at Buscot (in the upper Thames valley, south of the river a few miles south east of Lechlade and a few miles north west of Faringdon, for those unfamiliar with these parts), where there are interchange facilities with the Estate railway. So far, I have built the baseboards, laid all the track (standard and narrow gauge) and wired everything up. This took quite a time as I having to relearn a lot of things. Having got everything running, work stopped whilst I sat and watched the trains go round, at least until my assistant (?) a large grey cat called Tilly, decided to stop everything by lying down on the trains! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Hello, Man with no name!, Welcome to the forum. Sounds like an interesting project. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Welcome to RMWeb. I was brought up in Oxford although I now live 400 miles away near Glasgow ! Good luck with your interesting-looking project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted May 6, 2017 Author Share Posted May 6, 2017 Hello, Man with no name!, Welcome to the forum. Sounds like an interesting project. Jeff Oops! Sorted that now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Welcome to the forum, you will find plenty of advice and inspiration on here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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