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A new 00 layout from Ely & District Model Railway Club which is currently being built. RAMSEY In
November1859 a proposal was made to build a railway from just north of the
Eastern Counties Railway Somersham station through Ramsey and on to join the
Great Northern Railway at Holme a distance of 13 Miles. The proposal made good
progress through Parliament and by the beginning of April 1860 the Somersham –
Holme Railway Bill was placed on the list of unopposed Bills.
Regrettably at a meeting of shareholders of the scheme on 5th
May 1860 the scheme was abandoned because of a potential shortfall in the
finances of some £3,400 a tidy sum in those days.
However the sum is less significant today and we have been able to raise
the sum and by using a superconductor time travel device and send it back
through time to allow the Somersham – Holme Railway to be built. Our
layout Ramsey is based on the buildings and features of the Ramsey town area,
although the station building is similar to that at Earith Bridge. Ramsey
has being built specifically for exhibition use with much thought given to the
design for ease of transportation, setting up and dismantling. The
layout will have automatic un-coupling
(Sprat and Winkle) for shunting of goods trains. It
is intended that the layout should be displayed in two versions, the BR steam
era and also as a modern image circa 2000, because the Beeching closures did not
affect Ramsey - and a sprinter service runs through to Cambridge and
Peterborough and there is a large produce warehouse/distribution depot.
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