An O Gauge Garden Railway in Suffolk

Gizzy

Gizzy

A gentleman, a scholar, and a railway modeller....
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Well I say garden railway, as the terminus stations are in an extended garage and a large out building, with the outdoors bit being the country scenic part.

I went to visit this point to point railway this afternoon. It's run to a time-tabled sequence on cards, and needs to be run by 8 operators. The stations are based on March and Liverpool St on the Great Eastern, with an LMS line as run to Peterborough. Another station is influenced by Cambridge and there's a bit of Loughborough in there too....
 
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Crackin' stuff !!!!!

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The owner, Barrie, 'retired' as a Shed Supervisor in 1960. (The year I was born!)

He and his group get together on Sundays and run the layout to a sequence. It can be a bit slow at times, with nothing happening for ages, and if there are problems, well it's like the real thing, with nothing happening at all! However, it's interesting to see it run as per the real thing, with bell codes and signalling.

The viaduct appears to have been cast in one piece.

The locos are scratch built and typical examples of those seen on the GE lines around Cambridgeshire in the late 50s/early 60s before diesels took over....
 
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been to barry's before myself, did you know he builds those engines himself, cracking layout and well known in the old railway circles and mentioned in several books, including jack rays. and if that wasnt all his wife provides tea and nibles.
 
dudley said:
been to barry's before myself, did you know he builds those engines himself, cracking layout and well known in the old railway circles and mentioned in several books, including jack rays. and if that wasnt all his wife provides tea and nibles.
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I left before the nibbles Dud, but I did see the cake she was preparing for later!

However, I'm watching my waistline, so best I left when I did....
 
What a wonderful looking line and very nice stock:bigsmile:
 
Fantastic - never seen it in the flesh but what an absolute treat and thanks for sharing these photos.

Barrie Walls is a childhood O Gauge hero along with the likes of 'Jack' Ray, Deryck Featherstone, Norman Eagles, Frank Roomes et al... a mis-spent pre-teen introduction to Model Railway Constructor along with copious back issues of MRN, RM, SMT etc ensured that.

It was Barrie's article 'King's Courier' in the 1985 MRC Annual that really fascinated me with his description on workshop tools and practices that he used time again to create his wonderful models.

Sadly many of these old 'uns are now gone but certainly their legacy lives on :thumbup:
 
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