New rolling stock
2x Leeds Scarcroft & Wetherby Railway open wagons.
2x Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway carriages.
David
Some pictures from the archive.
A southbound Wetherby to Leeds freight train
A train of gunpowder vans heading south - possibly France.
The ‘Hilliers’ boxvan is a long way from home. I just love it, therefore a purchase made.
A train of wagons all bound for Burmantofts (an area of Leeds)
David
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When I was a young lad (10-11 years of age) to earn some pocket money plus holiday money I did jobs in two public houses (ale houses). The job entailed sorting empty bottles to go back to their respective breweries etc… One of the places the bottles were returned to was Hey & Humphries of Leeds.
Why different breweries had their ale bottled there was a mystery to me, but I wasn’t really concerned at the time. I needed money to travel to St Malo, France plus saving for other expenditure. (We did things like that to earn money. ‘If you want anything then earn it’.)
Anyway, on my layout I wanted a small factory called Hey & Humphreys (Bottlers).
I have a small collection brewery wagons that deliver ale to be bottled. Different breweries giving variety to running operations. Peak Ales the most recent addition. (A rare model as only a few were made.)
David
Another (rare) brewery boxvan. Only 125 models made.
One reason for ale to be bottled at Hey & Humphries is in days long gone ale did not ‘travel well’. Hence the ale arrived in barrels a bottled in Leeds and sold locally.
(The joys of research 
)
David
Scenes on the layout
A Leeds to Dewsbury Market Place passenger train passing Crown Point Yard. The rear carriage is a HO six wheeled from a European company, the name escapes me.
Two open wagons loaded with boxes of ammunition. They are outside Fairbairn Lawson’s awaiting dispatch Destination France…
Two open wagons in London & South Western Railway lettering. They are ideal for use by the Leeds Scarcroft & Wetherby Railway…
A simple renumbering
David
Three A.W. Day open wagons with the same running number of 320. Block out the zero on one wagon, 32. Block out the 3 on another, 20. Three wagons now have different running numbers
David
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Nice work and great photos, David!
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Thanks John.
Simple alterations to running numbers makes a larger fleet of vehicles imo.
David
I have acquired three clockwork locomotives. They will operate a small layout in the garden.
Meanwhile a little fun. Clockwork loco and steam engine (electric powered off course) on a double header train.
David
Before the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway took over running trains over Rothwell Railway track the R.R. had three dilapidated balcony ended carriages. The L&YR did away with them.
In model form two survived and modernised then painted in L&YR livery
Seen here at Clarence Dock Station
Living in the land of the former North British Railway I had to have a NBR carriage or two. In real life one carriage made the daily run from Edinburgh to Plymouth
Two carriages seen at Leeds Sovereign Street Station
David
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You’ve probably answered this before, but…
Where is your layout? Is it in an attic as so many UK layouts seem to be?
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Hi Mark. The layout was originally in the attic.
Because of my health Dawn said I could have the third (spare) bedroom.
Although much smaller than the attic obviously, the bedroom at 11ft x 8ft is easily accessible. Dawn knows where I am and I can get to her if she needs me.
David
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When I run steam engines I run a timeframe of 1914/1919. Troop trains run as do munition trains.
New munition wagons
David
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When I lived in Leeds I did not own a car. Travel by bus was my only way. I have travelled on all the bus companies that served Leeds and have models of them all except one. That is until recently. Rapido announced they were producing the ‘missing one’. The price is really over the top, but a model had to be purchased.
David
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Fairbairn Lawson’s were a metal workers factory making various metal items. Wartime manufacturing meant a change to small arms munitions to help the war effort.
Two freight wagons loaded with boxes of munitions.
A southbound freight train heading to Dewsbury Goods Yard.
David
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Good looking stuff. Your layout looks so different than an American layout, as one would expect. Well done.
Rich
Thanks, Rich.
Sovereign Street is a lot different to many U.K models as well. 
I like to model things that are seen in real life, but rarely seen on layouts.
See what you see and not what you thought you saw.
David
“Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not.”
- Robert F. Kennedy
David,
I really enjoy your daily pictures of your layout. Well done!
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