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00 SCALE CARD MODEL KITS
LAST UPDATED 28th April 2012
LLANDUDNO AND COLWYN BAY ELECTRIC RAILWAY
We're moving to Wales for this update - It's still beside the sea and the trams are still green and cream!
I have been looking at the LCBER system recently and found it fascinating, both in its route, which included street tramway and spectacular landscapes in the cross country sections, and in its vehicles, which although were only of six types, were very varied in their design.
I decided to have a go at all of them, then on looking for a location to use as a display, where better than the depot at Rhos-on-Sea! The results are pictured below. My sincere thanks go to John Bird and the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Tramway Society for their assistance with some of the details that weren't apparent from the photos I had, particularly the elaborate shop front on the tramway offices (pictured below), which seems a little out of place considering the rest of the office building was just constructed from corrugated iron!
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| General View of Depot | Tramway Offices Shop-Front |
The tram models can be found below. I have produced the original cars 1-14 and the small four-wheelers in their original dark red livery as well as the later green. John Bird of the LCBTS told me the four-wheelers were never painted green and were still in their original livery when scrapped at the depot, but as I'd already then built a model of one in green I left it as a "might-have-been" model. The final three types were all second-hand, so I have also produced them in the liveries of their original owners. All of the model kits in LCBER livery have appropriate alternative fleet numbers provided, so if you really wanted you could produce every car in the fleet! A sheet of typical advertisements is also provided with the models of the cars which carried them. The only car not covered is the works car, 23A, but I'm working on it and it should be available by the next update.
I have not made the depot buildings available in kit form, as they run to about 16 sheets of parts. Let me know if you are interested in a kit of these buildings. If there is enough interest I will start writing instruction sheets for them!
