Outwell Village 00 4mm scale (15)
Outwell Village by Neil Rushby and Alan Price.
The tramway opened on the 20th August 1883, but only as far as Outwell. On September 8th 1884 the line through to Upwell opened to traffic. Passenger services ceased as early as 31st December 1927 due to falling numbers as a result of competition from road transport. However goods services were far healthier and continued for some 38 years after the passenger service ceased. Between the years of 1945 to 1950 saw the most activity, when it was not uncommon to see double headed trams with up to 60 fruit vans in tow. This buoyant trade saw investment in new diesel trams making this quiet backwater the first fully dieselized branch in the country. Though again due to road competition the line finally closed to all traffic on the23rd May 1966.
Following the Tramways Act of 1870 the Great Eastern Railway Company decided to build as an experiment, a line to run from Wisbech to Upwell, situated to the south of the Wash on the fens of East Anglia. This enabled the line to be built with less regulations, and therefore with less costs than a conventional railway. With its proximity to the road the loco-motives were somewhat uncon-ventional with the workings and running gear enclosed. One of the enignes got famous because of it’s appearance as “Toby” in the child series Thomas the tankengine.
All the engiens are subject to speed restrictions of 12mph with further restrictions of 8mph when crossing roads and 4mph when passing through facing points.
Because of the hisjtjoric character of the model Neil Rushby and Alan Price, the makers of the model, all the locomotives and rolling stock that are featured on the line are mainly kits or scatch built. The buildings, all at one time stood on the location and are all scratch built using plasti card as the main frame with embossed plasti card for the brickwork laminated to the frame.
Outwell Village 00 4mm scale (15)
Outwell Village by Neil Rushby and Alan Price.
The tramway opened on the 20th August 1883, but only as far as Outwell. On September 8th 1884 the line through to Upwell opened to traffic. Passenger services ceased as early as 31st December 1927 due to falling numbers as a result of competition from road transport. However goods services were far healthier and continued for some 38 years after the passenger service ceased. Between the years of 1945 to 1950 saw the most activity, when it was not uncommon to see double headed trams with up to 60 fruit vans in tow. This buoyant trade saw investment in new diesel trams making this quiet backwater the first fully dieselized branch in the country. Though again due to road competition the line finally closed to all traffic on the23rd May 1966.
Following the Tramways Act of 1870 the Great Eastern Railway Company decided to build as an experiment, a line to run from Wisbech to Upwell, situated to the south of the Wash on the fens of East Anglia. This enabled the line to be built with less regulations, and therefore with less costs than a conventional railway. With its proximity to the road the loco-motives were somewhat uncon-ventional with the workings and running gear enclosed. One of the enignes got famous because of it’s appearance as “Toby” in the child series Thomas the tankengine.
All the engiens are subject to speed restrictions of 12mph with further restrictions of 8mph when crossing roads and 4mph when passing through facing points.
Because of the hisjtjoric character of the model Neil Rushby and Alan Price, the makers of the model, all the locomotives and rolling stock that are featured on the line are mainly kits or scatch built. The buildings, all at one time stood on the location and are all scratch built using plasti card as the main frame with embossed plasti card for the brickwork laminated to the frame.