The Sand Hutton Light Railway

So my Trevor Quarry breaker wagons seems to go down well if the comments to the previous post are any indication. I've been really enjoying modelling the small wagons and based on a comment to that post I've been side tracked from Canopus yet again. The comment in questions was from James who suggested that maybe I'd be interested in having a look at the wagons from the Sand Hutton Light Railway. No sooner was the suggestion made and I was on the hunt for scale drawings.

Actually that's not entirely true, I knew where the scale drawings were, they were in a book that I'd been tempted to buy ever since I picked up a copy of the Slate Quarry Album to get scale drawings for a bunch of Welsh slate quarry wagons (like the ones for the Aberllefenni box wagon). The publisher of that book, RCL Publications, also have a book on the Sand Hutton Light Railway and James' comment was a good excuse to buy a copy.

The book only arrived today so I haven't had a lot of time to read through it but it looks like an excellent book with lots of photographs, maps, and scale drawings. In fact while I haven't read much of the book yet, I've already started on a model of the open goods wagon! I'd certainly recommend the book to anyone with an interest in narrow gauge railways.

From the small amount of text I have read so far I've learnt a number of things including that there is a link between the railway and my home town, but more on that in a later post when I've done a little more research as I'm going to finish this post so I can get back to the 3D model I'm building!