After dark

[Graeme Dunbar]

You also have to remember that lighting outside larger towns was quite unusual in the earlier years of the NG railways, even up to WW2 much of the lighting in homes was still candles or oil lamps. So careful choice of the period you are modelling and where it is located is essential for a night-time 009 model. In many cases the NG lines ran through areas with no lights at all!

One of the stories told of the Keith and Dufftown "Whisky" Line   https://keith-dufftown-railway.co.uk/ (OK, not NG but an NG model version of it has been built) was that when electric lights first appeared in the carriages serving Keith, local residents used to buy a ticket from Keith Junction to Keith Town just to witness this wonder of the modern world. It is well under a mile by foot and probably not much more than half a mile by train.

[Julian Evison]

Did they have WTTs (Working Timetables) back then, Julian? All the books have the passenger timetables but I've not seen any WTTs which have both goods and passenger workings published. I know BR would have had one back in the 50s but by then it was goods only.

Blair,

I think they probably did, but by another name. The Cartwright & Russell book on the W&L has as appendix 4 timetables showing both goods and mixed workings for October 1908, July 1925 and October 1942. In each case they are described as from the 'Service Timetables' of the Cambrian and then the GWR. Whether they are precisely the same as a WTT, I don't know.

Julian

[Hobby]

Thanks, will have a look when I get all my books out or storage.