The W+M railbus has arrived in ‘Bred Albin’ from Essex for assessment on its suitability to run on the branch. The keeneyed will note ‘Witham’ is still on the destination blind.
The writings of Iain Rice have been an inspiration for me and for the ideas and standards that I hope to achieve with my railway modelling. In his book Creating Cameo Layouts, Rice describes a cameo layout as being “a representation which conveys the nature and character of a prototype in a small space while being executed to a high standard, the modelling being set off by a visually pleasing presentation”. This description by Rice was my starting point for ‘Bred Albin’.
For those who have memories of British Railways in the early-1960s, it was a time when the infrastructure of the railways in Britain was going through major changes. The steam age was coming to an end, diesel traction was being introduced, and Dr. Beeching, in his report, was rationalising and closing many of the long-established railway routes. Many rural branch lines in Sixties Scotland were served by passenger trains that comprised one passenger coach and one locomotive. The branch from Ballinluig on the Highland main line to the town of Aberfeldy in Perthshire had a passenger service, which consisted of a single coach train hauled by a BRCW Class 26 or a BR Sulzer
