Fairton Heritage Railway
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:39 pm
Hello all, I have decided after quite a while of pondering. To build my second route, The Fairton Heritage railway.
So far i have been concentrating on the main station and surrounding yard and scenery. I have completed a small village (Fairton) which consists of a few rows of terraced houses, a few shops, a supermarket and a church.
The track in the station and yard is complete and am currently placing scenic items. A level crossing and signal has also been placed.
Just a question, Where are the point levers as i cant find them and dont come on automatically as i make the points?
Anyway some brief history of the line:
Fairton is a small village in yorkshire and the small branch line starting a fairton and ending 4 miles later in Feathersbridge.
The line opened in 1898 and was used for delivering small freight and passenger services. It ran to a full timetable until the First World War when it was temporarily closed due to a bomb damaging the line between Fairton and Cartwell. It reopened at the end of the war due to the track not being available for the repair. Again it ran a full timetable until World War 2 until passenger service was ceased and freight for the War effort was introduced to the line. After the war the line was fully closed until 1953 when the Line reopened. However in 1968 Beechings Axe hit Fairhill and the last 2 miles of track was torn up until a large group of village enthusiasts protested. In 1969 the line was handed over and rebuilding of the last 2 miles began, this continued until 1981 when the line was fully reopened again with high amounts of passengers.
Anyway back onto the route, here are pictures of what has been completed so far:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69 ... herita.png
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/85 ... herita.png
So far i have been concentrating on the main station and surrounding yard and scenery. I have completed a small village (Fairton) which consists of a few rows of terraced houses, a few shops, a supermarket and a church.
The track in the station and yard is complete and am currently placing scenic items. A level crossing and signal has also been placed.
Just a question, Where are the point levers as i cant find them and dont come on automatically as i make the points?
Anyway some brief history of the line:
Fairton is a small village in yorkshire and the small branch line starting a fairton and ending 4 miles later in Feathersbridge.
The line opened in 1898 and was used for delivering small freight and passenger services. It ran to a full timetable until the First World War when it was temporarily closed due to a bomb damaging the line between Fairton and Cartwell. It reopened at the end of the war due to the track not being available for the repair. Again it ran a full timetable until World War 2 until passenger service was ceased and freight for the War effort was introduced to the line. After the war the line was fully closed until 1953 when the Line reopened. However in 1968 Beechings Axe hit Fairhill and the last 2 miles of track was torn up until a large group of village enthusiasts protested. In 1969 the line was handed over and rebuilding of the last 2 miles began, this continued until 1981 when the line was fully reopened again with high amounts of passengers.
Anyway back onto the route, here are pictures of what has been completed so far:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69 ... herita.png
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/85 ... herita.png
