Ouse Wharf

[BarryL]

With Pulborough now retired, and Plumpton Green complete, it seems a good idea to start a new layout, and the Jubilee Challenge provides an ideal opportunity. The layout was inspired by a location south of Lewes where there was a chalk quarry and small quay. North of Lewes was the Ouse Navigation (a canalised river). The canal closed in 1868, but my rather fanciful back-story has the canal bought by the LBSCR, and the quay developed to serve areas not reachable by rail. (A very unlikely story I know, so please don't tell me I'm wrong!!).
The layout will make good use of our four industrial engines, and will feature a couple of canal barges, plus the last River Arun sailing barge, which has made its way along the coast from Pulborough.
Progress can be seen at https://www.lbscrmodels.co.uk/ow1.html

Here are two photos taken recently:

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Barry

[bevis]

Looking good Barry.
Hope to see the finished item in the not too distant future.
Bevis

[Enigma]

Looks like a larger version of something I was planning!

[Noel]

The canal closed in 1868, but my rather fanciful back-story has the canal bought by the LBSCR, and the quay developed to serve areas not reachable by rail. (A very unlikely story I know, so please don't tell me I'm wrong!!).

Not that unlikely for that period; given that road transport was horse drawn, and local roads probably chalk surfaced, water transport was much more reliable. It was also not unknown for other railways to buy a canal and use it to compete with the local one; elsewhere both the GW and Midland.railways did that. The difficulty is with the industrial locos; if the LBSCR owns the canal and the wharf and the line to it, why is it not just shunted by the local goods like any other siding?

[BarryL]

Answer 1 - because the LBSCR bought the wharf, canal, barges and engines.......
Answer 2 - I have four industrial engines, and little opportunity to display them!!