Did my photoshop "thang" on this photo to improve it a wee bit for you blokes.



I really like the idea of building this on an HO mechanism in 1/35th.

Here's a period postcard that shows "Hercules" which was fitted with armor plates :



(from http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/RH&DR1.html )

and what it looks like nowadays :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecole/sets/72157623337769671/

H.P.

Just a little "Happy Talk", mate!

Hi guys

I live about 15 miles from the RHDR and have been reasonably familiar with it for most of my life. For your information it is still going strong and has a contract to carry children on that 'remote' piece of coast to school. It runs scheduled services along its route of twenty miles or so, and used to connect with the standard gauge railway at New Romney until that was closed down. Actually there are (now at least) perfectly good roads along that part of the coast. The railway was built by a guy who wanted to make scale models of full size locomotives (yes there is an American one or at least there used to be). The coaches need to accommodate real people so they are not scale models. I do not think it was made by anyone for his estate as it connects about half a dozen villages and towns along the coast. It is also my understanding that the armoured train was used, if not built, to help to safeguard the PLUTO installation in 1944; unarmoured trains were used to carry the building materials needed resulting in much of the track and rolling stock being pretty worn out at the end of the war.

Chris

Found a kind of "scale model" for that one :

http://www.juniorgeneral.org/donated/clive/train.png