One of the people I met as a result of joining the Dice on the Hill games group at Shrewsbury House Community Centre was Richard Watson. He has been one of the duty managers of the community centre for some years and is both a wargamer and a model railway enthusiast. We have chatted about both hobbies and last year we managed to fight three wargames:
- Spartans vs. Athenians (March 2025)
- The Battle of the Falkland Islands (November 2025)
- The Battle of Scrobbesburh (December 2025)
Richard knows that I am particularly interested in 009/HO9 model railways and that I have a small layout ... the Mucking Flats & Fobbing Marsh Light Railway (MF&FMLR).
My Mucking Flats & Fobbing Marsh Light Railway (MF&FMLR) model railway layout.
Richard has been unwell for some time, and it was a great pleasure to see him at Shrewsbury House last week ... and not just because he had a bag full of bits and pieces for me!
Whilst he was off work, he had been having a bit of a clear out, and had selected some of his surplus 009/HO9 model railway locomotives and rolling stock that he thought that I would find useful. He was right ... and I am now the proud possessor of the following:
Two Liliput/Bachmann Fasslwagen Zillertalbahn (Barrel wagon, Zillertal Railway)
A Liliput/Bachmann Aussichtswagen Museumwagen (Observation carriage/museum carriage)
A Liliput/Bachmann Personnelwagen 2.Klasse (Second-class passenger carriage)
Two Playcraft open-sided passenger carriages (that were known as 'toast racks')
Four Minitrains dumper wagons
A Minitrains Diesel 0-4-0 Locomotive
A Liliput 0-4-0 Diesellokomotive Zillertalbahn (Diesel locomotive, Zillertal Railway)
A Minitrains 0-4-0 Fiddletown & Copperopolis tender locomotive with four different carriages plus
A Minitrains Fiddletown & Copperopolis baggage wagon
The Fiddletown & Copperopolis railway was the fictional creation of cartoonist Carl Falberg. A compilation of his Fiddletown & Copperopolis cartoons was published as Fiddletown and Copperopolis - The life and times of an uncommon carrier in 1960, the cartoons having orignially appeared in issues of the RAILROAD magazine. The book was republished in 1985, 1998, 2003, and 2012.
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