Hi all,
Here are a few items on the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway, designed by Rowland Emett, and built for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
It was a mad set-up, based on cartoons that had appeared in the magazine Punch. There were three different locomotives. One actually looked like a railway engine, another like a paddle steamer, and the last like a steampunk airship.
Built to a gauge of 15 inches, and towing passenger carriages giving rides to the public.
Emett later provided the inventions of Caractacus Potts in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Here are a few items on the Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway, designed by Rowland Emett, and built for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
It was a mad set-up, based on cartoons that had appeared in the magazine Punch. There were three different locomotives. One actually looked like a railway engine, another like a paddle steamer, and the last like a steampunk airship.
Built to a gauge of 15 inches, and towing passenger carriages giving rides to the public.
Emett later provided the inventions of Caractacus Potts in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct3ly_qyG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxN_2TkzAyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6UI8fSvAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOeP42Z2nA
Paul Adams from New Zealand
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Terranova47 from the US adds: another great site https://www.smallbrookstudio.uk/
