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- Adrian Ponting This
is a model of an English narrow gauge railway as it would
have appeared in the early years of this century and is
inspired by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway that once
ran in North Devon.
Simply for the purpose of
providing place names, the model is set in Northeast
Wiltshire where the railway would have linked the
villages of Ramsbury and Aldbourne to the standard gauge
railways at Marlborough.
The subject of the model
is the terminus of the railway at Aldbourne.
The track plan is not
based on any particular railway but was designed to make
this simple station interesting to operate. Similarly,
the buildings are not based on any particular prototypes,
but are typical of those found on a small railway. Until
some cottages are built to represent the village, you
will see that the railway ends if not in, then at least
next to, the proverbial ploughed field.
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