Here's where it all started out, a Hornby Train Set laid on a 6'x4' table. Later it became 8'x4' and then double decked.
Never more than a Train Set, it was nevertheless great fun.
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With the Mk1 layout scrapped the Mk2 arose from the ashes like a pheonix. The boards were re-used but cut lengthways in to strips and laid in a "L" shaped pattern to make our first real layout - as opposed to a laid out train set along two sides of number 1 son's bedroom.
These pictures are all from the early days of setting up the layout. At the moment I can't find any of the later period when it was as near as damned fully scenic'd.
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With the arrival of number 2 son we needed the space in No 1s bedroom to stable the newcomer overnight. So it was out with the old and in with the new.
The Dormouse Line Mk3 is a duel guage 4mm scale model railway. 00 and 009 gauge track is used to complete the layout. All buildings are scratch built.
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Stock used on the Dormouse Line.
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Tools and similar bits and pieces found to be useful in the construction of the Dormouse Line.
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Please feel fee to add a picture or two here of your own layouts or real world prototypes. If anyone has any L&Y images I'd be particularly pleased to see them here but anything rail related is welcome.
You have to register to upload a file, sorry but this is to stop folks and bots uploading any old thing in particular images of ladies of negotiable virtue.
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Images of Helmshore Railway Station. It lasted for the best part of a hundred years Helmshore in Rossendale Lancashire on the Bury-Accrington Line. Built by the East Lancashire Railway it was a line of incredible beauty with magnificent viaducts and bridges providing wonderful views.
After operation by the ELR, the L&YR, LNWR and LMS the line fell in to the hands of BR. When the railways (together with other British Industries were stolen by the post war socialist government) it began to fail - again like every industry stolen by the socialists. The line was closed in 1966 but only after timetable changes made in 1965 making the line unusable for its regular passengers.
Today the population of Helmshore is approximately 10 times what it was in 1966, most of which commute to Manchester, Bury and Bolton daily to work all of which were connected by rail ... all by car. Fo a while there was a chance that the new ELR may have operated the line but in the end they chose the Bacup line into Rawtenstall instead.
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