A selection of archive pictures for your enjoyment

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PicturePhoto: Stuart Baker/MRS collection.
Darjeeling loco built by Frank Norrington in the early 1970s with backhead valve wheels operating as switches for lights; 2 rail electric 12v DC; working rheostat regulator and Bonds’s mechanism.

Merioneth Railway Society loco kept by Stuart Baker.



PicturePhoto: Stuart Baker/MRS Collection.
BETWS-Y-BRYN – Merioneth Railway Society quarry layout circa 1972.

Slate shed built by David Newham; Crane by Tony Jenkins; small loco shed by Charlie Spillman.




PicturePhoto: Stuart Baker/MRS collection.
BETWS-Y-BRYN – Merioneth Railway Society quarry layout circa 1972. Crane by Tony Jenkins.







PicturePhoto: Stuart Baker/MRS collection.
Minffordd station building from the old Abermarsham layout. Station constructed circa 1960-62 by David Newham. Carriages also by David Newham.





PicturePhoto: Stuart Baker/MRS collection.
Abermarsham locomotive shed at Model Railway Club London exhibition 1962. Layout built by David Newham and Roger Marsh. Locos built by: Roger Marsh – FR type “Boxer”; David Newham – GVT “Sir Theodore”; George Moon – Furzebrook Railway “Quintus”; the two Rheidol locos - builders unknown.

PicturePhoto: Stuart Baker/MRS collection.
Abermarsham 1962-63 built by Roger Marsh and David Newham. Roger Marsh’s engine “Boxer” (a caricature of a Festiniog Railway engine by George England & Co.) at the tipping dock for which Roger had built a rake of automatically tipping skips for transfer of material into a false bottomed 2½“ gauge wagon. It was from this line and the work of David and Roger that the Merioneth Railway Society developed.


PicturePhoto: John Kimber/MRS collection.
This picture, first published in Merioneth Mercury No. 7  January 1977,  shows the main station on the Abermarsham line.  The locomotives are both by Roger Marsh, being "BOXER" and "SYLVIA" (alias "Prince" and "Dolgoch" of the T.R.).

The second coach in the platform is a model of the F.R. Ashbury carriage featured in MM No. 6.




PicturePhoto: Dave Pinniger
Model Railway Club exhibition 1968

An amazing selection of models by: top row left Don Boreham, top row centre Nigel Goff, third row right Bill Strickland, bottom row left Stuart Baker, bottom row right Don Boreham and all others unidentified (unless you can help).

PicturePhoto: Don Boreham/MRS collection.
Don Borham Fiji Free Train loco, the first 16mm loco and almost part of model railway history. Both stud contact and two rail electric (using Bond's "O" gauge coarse scale track) built in the mid 1960s before two rail became the norm for electric traction.

Don Boreham's garden railway based on the old F.R. terminus at Duffws circa 1986. Don’s double Fairlie “Oakenshield”.

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Photo: Dave Pinniger
Accucraft 7/8th "Edward Sholto" one sunny day on the AVR.