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I did. 😃 It would be nice to see them being produced, time will tell. Well, I don't believe they've announced that as of yet, but with the fact the Barclay's were changed from 'not being produced' to 'under review' and the slight hints given in the interview with Jennifer Kirk that other parties are interested in taking over some assets, it does seem likely.

A sugar beet factory is something I'm researching right now and is something that allows for both mineral wagons and vans. Mineral wagons were used to carry the sugar beet, limestone and coal to the factory, and vans could be used to export the pulp (to be used as animal feed) and refined sugar.

Awesome, thanks! Quite some interesting locations in that list. The sugar beet factory at Ipswich in particular looks quite interesting. It also has quite a nice trackplan from what I can see on maps.nls.uk. Interesting to know the sidings would've been used for over flow marshalling, that could give me a lot of flexibility if I would want to have something different be stabled on the layout for a bit. Which does compensate the blandness of running rakes of generic open wagons. 😄 Looking through my copy of "First Generation Diesels in East Anglia" (which is superb inspiration for a lot of potential future layouts in a non-industrial setting) I did find quite an interesting image of a 37 street running to Felixstowe which looked rather interesting. Admittedly not suitable for an industrial locomotive in it's current setting but I could possibly combine some elements of Yarmouth and Lowestoft to create an dockside layout generic enough to allow for running both BR stock and privately owned stock. I saw an image of two industrial locomotives on The Mersey Docks & Harbour Board railway in a setting not too far off from Yarmouth and Lowestoft in terms of general layout so that might also be a possibility. Admittedly I did scrap an idea for a dockside layout because I felt I didn't have enough space (about 9 ft by 3 ft) to create the typical long stretches of a layout inspired by the Ipswich quayside lines but having the possibility to combine BR diesels, BR shunters and industrial locomotives in one layout would be quite nice, particularly with the various types of wagons you can see on such a layout. I'll see if I can come up with a layout in Anyrail. Although that could take a week since my trackplanning skills are quite poor and the next days . In the meantime "Industrial Locomotives & Railways of Eastern England" should arrive here on tuesday so that'll probably give quite some nice inspiration as well.

Looks like a good book indeed! Thank you! Yeah small layouts are really nice for industrial loco's, I only have about 8 foot by 2 foot in space available right now so my first layout won't be big even if I want it to. 😄 A model of Framlingham for example is still in the back of my head as a future project.

Awesome job on the lock! It looks really impressive. The shot of the 20 under the bridge is also really nice. Some very nice inspiration for a scenic boundary on any layout.

That looks very interesting! A nice fleet of varying locomotives as well. I don't think I could do it justice with the space I have right now, but this is definitely an idea I'll keep in mind. Although something like this could definitely work for an interesting (but large) diorama.

Indeed East Anglia never really had a lot in terms of industrial railways, although looking at this thread it does appear that there were quite a few places where industrials ran. Quite annoying, I really like East Anglia in BR days with the old GER stock combined with modern BR locomotives, but I also like industrial railways. I do remember seeing a picture in a book of a BR locomotive shunting grain vans to a brewery in the region however which looked rather interesting, maybe that place had it's own locomotive? Although a Victory would be too large for a brewery anyway, something of this size only seems to fit in at a colliery, steelworks or a dockside. Docks would be rather fun to build, but I don't really have the space to build a convincing dockside layout.

Wow, just wow. Probably not much I can say that hasn't been said before, it's just a very, very nice model. Runs good, feels good and it looks so handsome running around with a couple of wagons. The built in sound is also very impressive. Really glad to have bought it.

Hah, thanks! Yeah the Victory is a very nice runner, such a smooth mechanism in it. Puts my other models to shame.

Absolutely, yes! Industrial steam is definitely an interest to me, although typing about it I can't put my finger on why.😃 I just like it. The idea for my first permanent layout is to at least have it be something industrial, although I'm still thinking of what. It's probably going to to a brewery or harbour, although the Victory would be rather large for a brewery.

Hello there, After lurking on RMweb for probably about 2 years or so I decided to make an account. I'm a relatively young modeller from the Netherlands (21 years old), with a big interest in the British railway scene, having grown up with a certain blue locomotive from England:) I got my first model trains about 8 years ago, but quickly lost interest since I was young and didn't have a lot of money to spend on expensive Mainland European models. Then decided around the summer of 2020 or so that I did want to get model trains again, so I bought some British stock and experimented with that, which I much preferred over the German trains I had. Now it's a couple of years later and I've built up a small collection of rolling stock, almost all from the BR steam era. I don't have a permanent layout as of yet sadly since I just don't know what to build, so here's a picture of my latest model, having just arrived last week, running on a small floor layout. I think he'll be called Victorious, the load on the Warwell is something my grandfather made 8 years or so ago. Now to think of a layout for it to run on... And to quickly edit in my main modelling interests: -BR steam / BR green era, particularly with an interest in East Anglia -British Industrial railways, preferably in an urban setting And although not something I'll model in the near future, the Dutch railway scene from 1968 to about 2001 is also something I quite like. Greetings, Treinenliefde