Castle Aching
Welcome to CASTLE ACHING
January 2016
Summers seventeen, and winters too, had passed since the day I first realised that, as an adult, my boyhood enthusiasm for model railways had returned. That is a long time to spend in the Modeller's Armchair, and so, last Spring, I finally forced myself to make a start. Life had other plans for me, however, and it is only now that I can make a start in earnest.
So, what is this layout? Well, it is really jus
This relates to a particular brief moment in the long and baffling history of the 517 Class.
Frankly, I cannot keep a grip on the subject and have had to produce my own aide memoire in an attempt to do so!
During the period 1895-1905 a number of class members repaired or rebuilt at Wolverhampton were given extended smoke boxes with wing plates.
These were subsequently removed, presumably on the next re-boilering, if not before, save in the case of 567, which was sold to the Bishop's
