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Awesome! Nice to see Sundew (the giant dragline) in the film as well

Have you seen the Conwy Valley (Betws-y-Coed) Railway Museum's forced-perspective LNWR models? They are amazing!

Very nice!

I'm intending to make this thread an interesting discussion page and a useful resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the original 3 foot gauge railway. Any information and material (i.e. dated photos, flyers, tickets etc.) is welcome. People who have built R&ER pre-1915 layouts in the past can also show the pictures of them here. Note: I might also consider making a thread for the early-(W.J. Bassett-Lowke) era L'al Ratty. Thanks, Alex

The Industrial Railway Society article: https://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/10/orcadian_railways.htm (features in Roger's first post)

4 wheel or 6 wheel steam chassis, so I can create industrial/light railway locos for my planned layout...

Here's the irsociety page: http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/22/Guinness.htm Note: it has a picture of the conversion wagon. There are no pictures of the 2nd and 3rd locomotive (Hops and Malt) in the articles. So I've inserted the picture in myself. They were built by Stephen Lewin and note the interesting single-cylinder geared arrangement.

What about Mountsorrel Station on the GCR's Mountsorrel Branch (technically Mountsorrel Railway)? It is on a Heritage line I know, so you could say a lot of Heritage Railway stations as terminus Halts: i.e. Lawley Bank, Telford Steam Railway Old Heath Halt & Mangapps Station, Mangapps Railway Museum Braye Road & Mannez Quarry Stations, Alderney Railway The Former Dixton Halt on the K&ESR Park Halt, Middleton Railway

I think you've created one of the ultimate British-Outline garden railways. Amazing!

What about the Foxcote and Writhlington Collieries Railway - that was 2' 8 1/2" - steam operated with two Huddswell Clarkes and a Kerr Stuart

"I fear IKEA dum dum dum dum I won't go there again, I don't want a bookshelf called 'BILLY' or a table called 'SVEN'!"

How about this?! -- The Flying Buffer-beam

Here is my track-plan of the new Aberffraw layout, made using AnyRail 5: based on the initial rough sketch map I created earlier in the blog: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1889/entry-21674-he-we-go-with-a-bit-of-background-history/ Please read my other blog posts in order to understand the fictional history of the line.

I forgot to mention that the Capel Mawr Railway was later planned in 1880 to be extended to connect to the Chester-Holyhead line at Bodorgan and build a station at Bethel, of course the scheme failed, due to a lack of funds. Thus, the Capel Mawr continued to linger and stumble through its thin existence, until its eventual demise.

Interesting, here are some photos I know of already that are online: There aren't any locos in sight! I learnt that there were 17 locos on the system at one point, four of them were named; Gibraltar, Catalan, Rosia and Calpe, and that recently the last van on the line has been cosmetically restored by the Gibraltar Heritage Trust on the rock. Here is a link to the blog of the Trust: https://gibraltarheritagetrust.org.gi/about-gibraltar-heritage/news/23-09-2014/boxcar-restoration There are also some pictures of the locos when they were sold to contractors who worked in Singapore: http://www.searail.malayanrailways.com/Industrial/industrial.htm (scroll down to Topham,Jones and Railton's Singapore Harbour contract)

Does anyone have any photos or maps of the Gibraltar docks railway? As I have only found photos of the locos and rolling stock from long distance. Any responses would be gladly received.

Several dam-building lines had passenger services for their navvies. For example: the Bamford and Howden Railway (Derwent Reservoirs Railway); Ewden Valley Railway

Here is also info about the Stocksbridge Railway: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocksbridge_Railway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocksbridge_platform http://www.stocksbridgehs.co.uk/collection/archive/railways/the-src-a-brief-history/srdo007_1816/

Seeing the loco Bauxite reminded me of this line: The Aberford Railway (it is possibly my favourite standard gauge line), was very interesting as it was an independent, private, estate railway and coal-hauling line which had a regular passenger service, with its own locos. Here are some links: https://www.lner.info/co/NER/aberford/aberford.php http://www.parlington.co.uk/structures.lasso?process=3&subProcess=struct5_6 http://www.parlington.co.uk/structures.lasso?process=3&subProcess=struct5_4 http://www.parlington.co.uk/railway_h9.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberford_Railway

I agree! It would certainly make a good model, however I think the scratch build would require new smokebox door darts.

There were steam locomotives on the Nocton Line, including Fowler "Wildflower" and some surplus former War Deparment Light Railways Stock. Here is a picture:Wildflower is the locomotive above: