I have always been fascinated by light and mineral railways; the more unusual the line, the more it appeals to me.
As a young modeller, the likes of the ‘Madder Valley Railway’ and the narrow gauge exploits of P D Hancock’s ‘Craig & Mertonford Railway’ instilled a lifelong interest in these lines.
More recently, layouts such as the ‘East Suffolk Light Railway’ and many other standard and narrow gauge ones have proved how independent and different these lines were. My own original layout, ‘The Stoke and Matlock Light Railway’, had to be dismantled due to a house move some 20 years ago. Luckily, it was photographed prior to this and appeared in MRJ No. 104 in 1998.
Once the house move was completed, and after a year altering and decorating our new home, thoughts turned to a new layout. During house rewiring, I noticed the roof space would make a good home for a
