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
Kevin, below is the image Oxford has shown, so all we have to go on ...
These represent a decisive break from the rather Great Western-looking (Holden) outside-framed 16' covered wagons built to 1902.
This new style was built to a length of 19'3" from 1903 to 1910, to GER diagram 47. I believe the D&S kit, one of which I have, covers this type. That allows me to have one on CA, together with some of the older type.
From 1911, however, the wag
