CHADBURY: A Town and Industrial Scape In '0' Gauge

Book number: 92868 Product format: Hardback Author: ERIC BOTTOMLEY

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Bibliophile price £8.50
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When you walk into what was a 17ft square double garage you enter another world. There is an 8ft high oil painted backdrop with watercolour landscapes of the Pennine hills, a cotton mill with 166 windows. With the old Morris Minors, motorbikes with side cars, red telephone boxes, British Railways Chadbury Station in miniature comes alive with its wood and boarded station made entirely from mountboard with card strips overlayed for the roof tiles. The use of mini-posters and timetable boards adds to the veracity, and the tiny figurines like the child carrying suitcases and the station porter in the foreground, the steam train engine in the station, passengers waiting, and the Yorkshire background of rolling hills, the sidings, the pub, the horse, the back-to-backs alongside the canal from the ironworks, the window cleaner, the housewife, the painter, the coalman, all populate this miniature town. A continuous circular track is bridged by a girder bridge, to the left the shed area, to the right the station. It is DCC operated, and the loco stock is ex-LMS and LNER in a begrimed BR livery. To inspire the would-be modeller or please the eye of all transport enthusiasts, craftspeople, or those interested in the miniature world and collecting, the book includes over 100 close up colour photographs and a detailed track plan. 156 glossy landscape pages, colour.

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ISBN 9781473876323

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