Trench Railway released!

Started by Leon, 10 June 2019, 11:13:06 PM

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Leon

10 June 2019, 11:13:06 PM Last Edit: 10 June 2019, 11:19:35 PM by Leon
Something for the WWI gamers now, as we've released a complete trench railway system along with a Simplex locomotive to run on it!

These railways were developed during the trench warfare period of WWI to allow the delivery of food, ammunition and contruction materials to the front line, where the usual transport networks had been destroyed.  These narrow gauge tracks created a connection to the standard gauge railways further back from the front line and proved extremely successful.  As well as the UK, similar railways were used by Russia, France and Germany, with a variety of gauges in use from 600mm to 750mm (ours is 600mm).

Simplex were known as Motor Rail during the war and were one of several producers of locomotives and wagons to run on these new trench railways.  We've done the early style of tractor with the open top, later versions had a covered roof over them and armoured side doors.  We've also done a small handcart as well, which could be pushed along the rail in front of the locomotive with smaller items or wounded soldiers on it.

WWI
Trench Railway - https://pendraken.co.uk/world-war-i/trench-railway/
SCN-NTR1   Simplex trench locomotive set (1 locomotive, 2 wagons, 1 handcart)   £5.00
SCN-NTR2   Simplex trench locomotive (1)   £1.00
SCN-NTR3   Wagons (2)   £4.00
SCN-NTR4   Handcarts (2)   £1.00
SCN-NTR5   Stowage set (5 pieces)   £2.00
SCN-NTR6   Trench railway set (4 large straights, 2 small straights, 2 small curves, 2 large curves)  £12.00
SCN-NTR7   Trench railway junctions (2)  £5.00
SCN-NTR8   Trench railway, damaged sections (2)  £2.50

Railway straight sections are 100mm long, curves are 90mm long, short straights/curves are 50mm long.  Junctions are 125mm long and the damaged sections are 50mm.

And a couple of pics:







Next in the release queue is a bit of a surprise, so keep an eye out for that!
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Those are superb
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Techno

Rather zippy !!  :)

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:o

You kept this one quiet!

For some reason, I have an overwhelming need to have one of these in my life...  :x

It could be the only way I get a train set in my life any time soon  ;)

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Leman

They look very good.  Are they compatible with N gauge?
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Leon

Quote from: Leman on 11 June 2019, 10:58:49 AM
They look very good.  Are they compatible with N gauge?

The tracks/locomotive are our usual 1:150th, but with the rails being narrow gauge then they wouldn't take an N-gauge train.  In real life the trench rails were about 2ft apart, so just under half a standard gauge railway.
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John Cook

Unusual.  Any chance of some trenches!

Duke Speedy of Leighton

The next release sounds interesting too
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These look cool!

Will you have them at Phalanx?
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Leon

We'll have the tracks definitely, I'll get some loco sets sorted out as well.
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Orcs

These are excellent.


looking forward to WW2 armoured train  :)
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