Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The station was used primarily as an interchange station by passengers using the branchline which ran to Kirkby Stephen, then further east, over Stainmore summit, and eventually to Barnard Castle and beyond.
Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The station was used primarily as an interchange station by passengers using the branchline which ran to Kirkby Stephen, then further east, over Stainmore summit, and eventually to Barnard Castle and beyond.
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Tebay 4mm finescale layout as exhibited at Wigan. This layout, which was sold in 2004, allowed the observer to pick a lineside spot, imagine that they were in the period between 1948 and 1963 and enjoy watching the trains go by..... From the right came trains heading North and trains from the left were heading South. You would have arrived by train or the A6 - no motorway existed (yet). Tebay is situated in the beautiful but wild and remote Lune valley in the Cumbrian hills. It often rains and the winds frequently blow down Tebay Gorge or down from the high fells. You would have been fortunate, the summers day was fine and visibility good. In between the passing trains and shunting movements all you would have heard is the bleating of sheep. The West coast main line stretched before you in both directions. Looking as far as you could see to the south, the line crossed the river Lune on a girder bridge immediately prior to throwing off a loop on the down line. The loop was well used, principally by goods trains, to avoid delaying following faster freight or passenger trains.Previous | NextTebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The engine shed, code 11D (12H after May 1960), had an allocation of locomotives for banking heavy trains up Shap bank and for local trip freight. The shed building was in good condition having been rebuilt between 1948 and 1950. The 50’ turntable, 53’ with its extension rails in use, was long enough to turn the longest locomotives allocated to the shed, the 2-6-0 lvatt “Mucky Ducks”.

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