One day many years later, Mummy Mary said "why not build a train set on the landing for the boys?"
"Oh, what a good idea" Daddy Colin said. "Oh look, here's a plan I made earlier" – the one he'd been doodling during university lectures. The breakfast room was quickly requisitioned as a workshop.
"Oh, what a good idea" Daddy Colin said. "Oh look, here's a plan I made earlier" – the one he'd been doodling during university lectures. The breakfast room was quickly requisitioned as a workshop.
Lots of 2x1 was screwed and bolted together; the legs were levelled to accomodate the sloping floor. It was all topped off with Sundeala board, still available 30 years on.
Mummy, Granna and Baba were there at the grand opening of the basic circuit; single line working was in operation. Jimmi is at the controls (Colin's old Hamond and Morgan) and Matti took the pic on the Rolleiflex.
Change of scale
Lambourn
Raising the game in the interim years
The birth of Deddington Junction
Early years at Deddn Jn
Re-wiring and first refurbishment
The Grand Refit
Building Barford terminus
Hempton shed refit
Work in progress - latest news
Thirty Years On – Grand Re-opening
Gallery 1
Gallery 2
Gallery 3; fin de siècle
Gallery 4
The Deddington Junction mythology
Loco power
Rolling stock
Track plan
Electrics
Museum
Thomas and friends