Hudson Road N.E.R. (1998 - )

[Jon Grant 4472]

I chose to model the North Eastern Railway as it was my local railway company, albeit prior to 1923, and there are still a lot of NER bridges, buildings and other historical evidence near my home.

The down side was that there was only one accurate ready-to-run locomotive in OO - a J72 0-6-0 tank loco (now made by Bachmann) - and even that had to be detailled and repainted to get the correct period. There were no freight cars/wagons or brake vans available ready-to-run.

However there was no shortage of unpainted white-metal/lead and etched-brass locomotive kits which required a fair degree of expertise to assemble, motorise and paint. There was also a growing amount of unpainted plastic, white metal and etched brass wagon kits and brass coach kits available.

Anything not available as a kit, such as the snow ploughs, had to be scratchbuilt from official plans and wagon diagrams. I usually worked in plastic sheet and weighted with lead.

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The majority of the buildings and railway structures were based on actual prototypes found in the North East and were also scratchbuilt using either plastic or card, or both. I generally referred to old photographs, official plans and also going along with a tape measure, yardstick and clinometer.

Jon