Photo Gallery

In November 2009 Chris Nevard visited to take photos for Model Rail Magazine. Many of these have been used in issue 147 of the magazine, but some weren't and these are shown below with kind permission from Chris Nevard and Model Rail

An 08 shunter works a short freight past the oast house Class 33 'Earl Mountbatten of Burma' waits in platform 5 with a parcels train - very reminiscent of Tonbridge in the late '80s

A class 40 hauls a train of tanks past the scrap yard A 4-CEP unit mysteriously runs down from Bearham without a third rail! This is one of my favourite liveries

Terrier 'Bodiam' is turned Blue Diesel Days!

Prototype Deltic waits in the lower level storage yard This view shows the hidden junction under Bearham station

The Krone blocks, MERG DCC decoders and relays A dirty class 37 is exposed in the fiddle yard

Some more photos charting the construction of the layout:

Show 1 - Early stages of construction up to September 2006
Show 2 - Steady progress up to October 2007
Show 3 - More or less complete - August 2008 (with some sky substitution effects)
Show 4 - A scenic update - February 2009

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