Louth Railway Station

Louth would make a great model, if someone has the space. It was situated on the old Great Northern main line from Grimsby down through the centre of Lincolnshire to Boston, Peterborough and London. It carried large amounts of goods traffic to/from Grimsby, Immingham and Scunthorpe. In its hayday had an overall roof, served two branch lines, had a small engine shed with turntable, there was also extensive goods sidings with a large goods shed. Through traffic included fish from Grimbsy, iron ore for Scunthorpe, coal from Immingham, passenger trains to/from London, mail trains plus all other pickup goods, local passenger workings. Too bigger project for me but it is a little known line that is crying out for someone to pick up the baton.

I took a series of photos of Stations on the East Lincs line during late 70's/early 80's. I cannot state exact dates but the 6 colour slides of Louth do have 1979 penciled on them but I'm not convinced this is correct.



If anyone is interested there are more photos of Louth and other station on the East Lincolnshire Line at:
http://iansrailwaystuff.fotopic.net/
and a more extensive collection of photos at,
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.enefer/lincs/lincs.htm
also,
http://www.leytransport.i12.com/elr.htm
other lines in the area,
http://www.leytransport.i12.com/railcon.htm

There was also an article on Louth in the February 95 Steam Days magazine.

Grimstad line

What a project......I'm not one for continental railways, not yet anyway, but I have to admire this layout. A layout were a train has a journey, even a timetable will have a meaning. Oh to have that sort of space. I'll just have to keep on dreaming. In the mean time I'll watch this layouts progress with great interest.

http://grimstadline.blogspot.com/

Great blog. Keep up the good work......

Signal Box

Another discovery.......looks like this could be the signal box for Boscarne.

This is a Ratio kit that I started may years ago for what layout I cannot remember. I've also started to fit a Wills Interior kit but not put the instrument shelf in yet. Still got all the extra bits to fit though. One finial is broken but that can happen in real life, so not too bothered about that. I cannot remember how I fashioned the landing nor why but does require finishing and painting.


Hummm......16 lever frames is that enough for Boscarne?

It looks too easy (57xx conversion)

I have two 57xxs to convert to P4 and EM gauge society and Ultrascale offer conversion packs. It all looks too easy....The following link is to Ultrascale's instruction sheet and should automatically download the pdf.

http://www.ultrascale.co.uk/reviews/review01.pdf

This will definitely be my first attempt at a P4 loco.

Cambrian SR 25-ton Brake Van

Just been browsing the web and come across this web page,

http://www.clag.org.uk/sr-brake.html

Adding it to my blog as reference as I have one of these to build. There are some interesting comments made about the kit which I may need to identify what age kit I have.

Belated Christmas pressie

The little woman has came up trumps with a late pressie. The book 'Branch Line to Padstow' which was one on my wish list. Not disappointed either...this has to be on your bookshelf if your interested in the North Cornwall line. It follows the same format as other books in this series. Plenty of nice photos with descriptive captions, track plans of stations along the line, snapshots of timetables and traffic.

It's nice when someone listens. Thank you.

Ian's Railway Stuff photographs

I've subscribed to an online photo Gallery service where I will be uploading photos of railway interest. At present there are two galleries. One of holiday snaps taken by my girlfriend of a steam special weekend at Bodmin General in 2007. She took some really nice shots. The other gallery contains black and white photographs of stations on the East Lincolnshire Railway taken by myself after closure during the 1970s (I think). Stations include Louth, Burgh-le-Marsh, Aby, and Willoughby.

http://iansrailwaystuff.fotopic.net

Somewhere I also have a few colour slides again taken by myself of Louth Station. If I remember correctly before the roof was removed on the Goods Shed. Just cannot lay my hands on them for the moment. Once found I'll get them digitised and up on the site.