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
A wonderful picture, and I hope there is a special place in Hell for those of the Bure Valley Railway who bulldozed it so they could play with their toy trains.
If the picture is 1880, it must be shortly after opening.
As for the locomotive, we must picture it in black.
It could be an Adams Class 61, or, indeed, the earlier Johnson Class 134. The height of the tank and sweep of the cab-side cut-out argue for the Adams class, though the rectangula
