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Thanks both! It's peco code 75 - which transitions to code 100 setrack for the fiddle yard.

When I was thinking about building Buckden I was planning on keeping it prototypical with what I ran on it, but I find myself really liking modern image stuff too much not to be tempted. So I think in my mind the line didn't close, and provides a diversionary route occasionally. I also decided that it's my railway and I can run whatever I like!

I think it would look wrong to have big mainline steam or anything too heavy for the truss bridges when I'm running in steam mode, but in my history these were upgraded some time in the 70s - perhaps the ironstone quarries continued to be productive and wanted a route to east coast shipping?

So expect to see the occasional modern image freight, small passenger service (I have an arriva liveried 121 which was the start of a not yet made Cardiff Bay model (for which I also have a laser survey of Cardiff bay station building!)) and I think sprinters and super sprinters would look right, occasionally passing by the Ivatts in the goods yard.

Thanks Mark! I was very happy and I'm looking forward to it being painted and planted.

I think the Kimbolton bridge has been knocked down, yes it's funny how the building material changes halfway down the branch, I guess it was just what was cheapest to get to site. My Nan lived (and Mum was born) in Cranford so we used to drive over that bridge all the time - I should really go and have a poke around some time. I've actually got a feeling too that I've done the bridge the wrong colour - the one further up the line which the A1 still goes over is in blue/grey rather than red brick possibly the platform edging was too, but I just don't think that it would really look right!

Marcus.

Hi wiggoforgold - pics look great, just thinking about it as it looks like the bridge at buckden might have been similar of kimbolton and pics of kimbolton would be interesting!

 My copy of Sawford arrived today so I was just about to correct myself! To me it looks a little more like the one that stood at Kimbolton than the one between Grafham and Brampton (which IS still there) from the pictures in V. Mitchell et al. "Branch Lines Around Huntingdon: Kettering to Cambridge"

Yes thats where it was, but nothing is left now.

It had a bridge, and most of the photos if the station are taken from the bridge - I therefore have no idea what the bridge looked like!

 Thanks this is really useful! Especially the weighbridge office as that escaped many of the other photos I've seen of the site.

 Yeah I was surprised that it had made it there! Pics would be great - I'm particularly interested in what colour it was in situ, as Paul at Spa valley thought that they'd painted it green and cream and that it wasn't that originally.

 Thanks everyone!

46444 - thanks for the references! The Rhodes and Sawford books are now on order.  have the Bachman Ivatt 2MT and a rake of 3 Hornby Staniers, with a Bachman Midland 3F 0-6-0 on frieght duties. I would dearly like a J15 - and it looks like even the kits are hard to get hold of.

Wiggoforgold - I'm looking forward to exploring all of your posts, and would be very grateful for any photos you could let me have! As you can see from