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

[Jon Grant 4472]

In addition to Model Railways, I have also dabbled in wargaming/figure-painting and modelling military vehicles and aircraft. By setting Hudson Road during the winter of 1917-18, during the Great War, I could indulge in some military modelling as well.

Apart from a couple of plastic tank kits (Emhar/Airfix) and a metal Rolls Royce armoured car kit (Scale Link), I would have to scratch build the majority of the military hardware being transported to the North Sea ports.

Tank train



Scratchbuilt coastal defence rail gun. The NER had 2 of these, built by Armstrong/Whitworth in Newcastle to patrol the North East coast after coming under bombardment from German ships, early in the war.




Whippet tanks riding on specially built War Department flat cars






More military equipment to come......


Jon