Welcome The Rea Valley Light Railway is a garden model railway based on an imaginary 2 foot narrow gauge railway that ran in the valley of the River Rea just south of Birmingham. This was before Birmingham spread its suburbs swallowing up all the outlying villages. The models are built to 32mm gauge and to a scale of around 16mm : 1ft, SM32. The stock is a mixture of small industrial and the larger passenger and freight. Some items are models based on a full size prototype and others are freelance. The railway was first built in the early 1980s but moved to a new site in 1998. Photographs taken at both locations can be seen in this gallery. Adverts Gallery Stats Hits (today): 7 Hits (this week): 95 Hits (this month): 237 Hits (this year): 15023 Hits (all-time): 90304 Collections: 19

Top Photographs This Month 1  The cylinders are fitted after being wrapped with printed paper - Next job to do is to fit the connecting rods   11 - Construction of No. 14 "WREKIN" - Built from a Locolines' “Hunslike” kit   (7) 2  The connecting rods have been made using recycled steel from a biscuit tin - Because the connecting rods are thin all that needs doing is to file down the big end bearing of the coupling rods just enough to allow the connecting rods big-ends to fit onto the crank pin and allow the e-clip enough room to snap back into place   11 - Construction of No. 14 "WREKIN" - Built from a Locolines' “Hunslike” kit   (6) 3  Locolines TINY is now completed with connecting & coupling rods fitted along with a set of couplings - 11 October 2006   09 - Construction of No. 12 "BREDON" - an 0-4-0T built from a Locolines' “Tiny” card kit   (6) 4  I P Engineering Budget Chassis added with sprockets & ladder-chain connecting both axles - 18 September 2006   09 - Construction of No. 12 "BREDON" - an 0-4-0T built from a Locolines' “Tiny” card kit   (6) 5  The cylinders are made from wood with card wrapped around them and a 1/8" copper tube fitted for the piston rod to travel along - Also a steel rod has been added for the crosshead slide - 6 October 2006   09 - Construction of No. 12 "BREDON" - an 0-4-0T built from a Locolines' “Tiny” card kit   (5) Most Recent Collections 22nd Mar 2006 01 - RVLR - Scenes from the first railway - Northfield 29th Sep 2006 02 - RVLR - Scenes from the present railway - Rea Valley 1st Jan 1979 03 - The monochrome collection 27th May 2006 04 - RVLR - Stock 23rd Mar 2006 05 - The Industrial Collection 1st Jun 2006 06 - Construction of the RVLR 25th Jun 2007 07 - The evolution of No. 2 "ENID" - an 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Garratt style loco 25th Jul 2007 08 - Development of No. 11 "AFRICAN QUEEN" - a small live steam industrial loco 18th Sep 2006 09 - Construction of No. 12 "BREDON" - an 0-4-0T built from a Locolines' “Tiny” card kit 11th Aug 2007 10 - Construction of No. 13 "MALVERN" from a Locolines’ “Jumbo” kit 22nd Jun 2007 11 - Construction of No. 14 "WREKIN" - Built from a Locolines' “Hunslike” kit 13th Aug 2006 12 - Construction of Tram No. 2 - “ELIZABETH” - plywood construction 15th Oct 2006 13 - Construction of Tram No. 3 - “VICTORIA” - from a Locolines' card tram kit 31st Mar 2008 14 - Picture notes showing the construction of LYNX from a Locolines' CHUNKY kit 27th Mar 2008 15 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit 7th Dec 2006 16 - Construction of 4 Plank Wagons from a Locolines' card kit 3rd May 2008 17 - Construction of 3 plank dropside wagon for the RVLR from an AnDel Models kit 3rd May 2008 18 - Construction of 4 Plank 4 Wheeled Dropside Wagon Kit from I P Engineering 9th Mar 2007 19 - RVLR Workshops - A selection from the stock built for other railways

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