I decided early on that the short as well as infrequent trains running on the line were just
right for a small layout like this. I would mainly run four-wheelers, pulled by
T Class diesel
locos, with the odd
Y and a nice
J steamer, if I could get one. A
B Class diesel would also
have to make an appearance, but it could go no further than
Yea, as in real life. There would
be an excursion train every now and then, consisting of
W coaches,
E cars being just
too long. A
CE luggage van could be added.
The sparse daily passenger traffic would be taken care of by some diesel-electric rail motors
(
DERMs) and perhaps a small
Walker railmotor.
The time I chose, seeing that the line was closed in 1978, was 1975, rather arbitrarily.
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When it came to the Junction at Cathkin, things became quite interesting. The branch to
Alexandra was easy to do, going around the scenic divider to the other side of the
peninsula.
But what to do with the line to Mansfield?
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