£1.29
A fantastic list of locomotives and railways, some of which will sound familiar, and others that won’t: Voryd Lilliput Railway, Liverpool Garden Festival, Bushey Miniature Railway, Bridge View Miniature Railway, and Mr Leatham’s locomotive. We don’t know where it ran, or indeed if it has ever been used in anger in 180 years, but that might yet come to light
Description
In Miniature Railway issue 47:
The Liverpool Garden Festival
Mr Leatham’s Locomotive
The Bridge View Miniature Railway
The Bushey Miniature Railway
The Voryd Lilliput Railway
The Liverpool Garden Festival
Photos keep on turning up, and the latest gems to land on our desk include Dave Hill’s fascinating collection of slides from the Liverpool Garden Festival Railway in 1984.
Mr Leatham’s Locomotive
In MR45 a reader discovered a dusty, and clearly very old miniature locomotive in a Darlington museum. Author and engineer Richard Ellam took an interest and unearthed arguably one of the most interesting miniature railway tales you’re likely to hear. Mr Leatham’s loco is very old indeed – possibly more than 180 years old. And it’s contemporaneous with Robert Stevenson too. And we now have a fairly clear idea of what happened for most of that period. But there are still some mysteries to be unearthed if you feel so inclined.
The Bridge View Light Railway
Very much in contrast, a railway that has just sprung up like a mushroom, literally straight out of a shipping container, at a garden centre on the outskirts of Coventry. We like contrasts…
The Bushey Miniature Railway
Even smaller in gauge (5-inch), but no less ambitious is the Bushey Miniature Railway. If you live in central London and you and your twelve-year-old lad are keen on building a miniature railway, what do you do? You ask mum of course! She has some strict conditions, and the topography is challenging… But see for yourself – the result is a cracking bit of engineering and design, proving that you don’t need any experience at all to build a first-class railway.
The Voryd Lilliput Railway
Another mysterious locomotive (a mere 120 years old this time!) and a railway that came and went very quickly, but worth remembering all the same, if only for the rare gauge (11- or possibly 11 1/4-inch) and delightful Caledonian Railway 4-4-0 that ran there.
5.6MB PDF
Our pdf digital issues are viewable on most digital media, and can be kept to create your own digital library.
