Your Most Unusual Train?

[Delfin]

Interesting train, Delfin.
What loco(s) do you haul it with please?

The layout was a fictional railway loosely based on the Brecon and Merthyr railway.  The locomotive was a japanese 0-6-2 modified to look vaguely Welsh.  I have since scrapped the layout, but retained the stock as I fancy trying again with something more ambitious representing a part of the line rather than just a station.  However, it is in queue behind some North American modules (almost finished) and a proposed SNCF layout.

Unfortunately the locomotive itself has ceased to work, so I will have to source new motive power should I build another pre-grouping layout.  I expect it will go ahead as I find the pre-grouping railways of South Wales endlessly fascinating.

The cavalry were from the agricultural area of Glamorgan travelling to the large territorial army exercises which took place in the Aberystwyth area before the first world war.

Delfin

[Newportnobby]

Thanks for that
I seem to recall Dr Al had a GWR 56xx for sale a while ago (0-6-2T).
Dunno if he still has it but it may be worth a PM to him

[Delfin]

Thanks for that
I seem to recall Dr Al had a GWR 56xx for sale a while ago (0-6-2T).
Dunno if he still has it but it may be worth a PM to him

Thanks for letting me know, I have a 56xx, but they are not suitable for pre-grouping layouts as they were introduced by the GWR after the grouping in 1923.  However they are useful for a bit of kit-bashing.

Problems in sourcing suitable locomotives was one of the reasons I scrapped the layout.  It is unreasonable to expect manufacturers to produce much for that period, although one of the white metal kit companies did do some Rhymney Railway stuff I seem to recall.

Delfin

[EtchedPixels]

The 56xx was basically a GWR build of the pregroup tanks. Langley do bits to convert the generic farish tank to various welsh 0-6-0 / 0-6-2 types