A selection of archive pictures for your enjoyment
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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.
Merioneth Railway Society loco kept by Stuart Baker.
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.
Slate shed built by David Newham; Crane by Tony Jenkins; small loco shed by Charlie Spillman.
BETWS-Y-BRYN – Merioneth
Railway Society quarry layout circa 1972.
Crane by Tony Jenkins.
Minffordd station building from the old Abermarsham
layout. Station constructed circa 1960-62 by David Newham. Carriages also by
David Newham.
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.
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.
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.
The second coach in the platform is a model of the F.R. Ashbury carriage featured in MM No. 6.
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).
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).
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.