Our Fossebridge station runs to a very busy schedule, far busier of course than would have been the case in those far off days. Likewise locomotive stock represents a far wider range than one would have been likely to see at the time on a branch line! We offer the opportunity to view classes of GWR locomotives examples of which are now lovingly held in preservation hands, but some also that are now extinct! Fossebridge can now accommodate three trains simultaneously, or four with careful planning as well as longer trains than before. The layout has an eight road fiddle yard.
Our Fossebridge station runs to a very busy schedule, far busier of course than would have been the case in those far off days. Likewise locomotive stock represents a far wider range than one would have been likely to see at the time on a branch line! We offer the opportunity to view classes of GWR locomotives examples of which are now lovingly held in preservation hands, but some also that are now extinct! Fossebridge can now accommodate three trains simultaneously, or four with careful planning as well as longer trains than before. The layout has an eight road fiddle yard.
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There is a village called Fossebridge. It is a very small village in Gloucestershire, but it was passed by in the railway age and it never had a railway. However as is the want of many modellers we have taken licence, changed history, and given it one! Our Fossebridge is set in the late Twenties, early Thirties and is a thriving market town of some ten thousand people served by a branch line terminus, and supports among other things a dairy, a pub (of course, what else!) with the towns folk going about their daily work in the smithy, on the farms around the town, in the dairy etc Our railway as we see it at Fossebridge represents the Great Western Railway at its zenith, one might argue, and is often the case just before its fall. An organisation which filled the role of common carrier, as indeed did all railways of the day, willing and able to handle any kind of merchandise, raw material, stock; human and otherwise, from milk to coal, explosives to pigeons. The wonderful palmy days of steam, full employment on the railway and a public which could afford to travel and no leaves and no snow.Previous | NextThis Great Western branchline has undergone some significant changes over the last few years in order to enhance its operating potential. The layout was originally constructed as an elongated letter J with a shed, turntable and station approaches. This area survives but an extra three boards have been added making the layout 46 feet long. It is 2'6

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