Rea Valley Light Railway

Nineteen collections showing various aspects of the REA VALLEY LIGHT RAILWAY, a 16mm:1ft garden model railway.

The first railway built was Northfield which stood for more than 10 years. With a move to a new home the Rea Valley Light Railway was born again starting with Rea Falls in 2001. Take a look at the many aspects of the RVLR by choosing from the list of collections below. If you have enjoyed visiting my railway and would like to be kept up to date with all the latest additions enter your email details in the Notify Me! box on the right of this page.

My Yahoo Group LOW COST GARDEN RAILWAYS was created to help those who would like to share ideas on all types of garden railway modelling with minimum costs in mind.

Why not take a look at another side of the Rea Valley Light Railway, the MR, a 16mm:ft garden railway built around the original Mamod Steam Railway Company and the MSS Railway system. Another of my Yahoo groups - MSS and the early MAMOD STEAM RAILWAY - has been set up specifically for those who have an interest in the Mamod/MSS railways

Another side to my interest in steam and traditional toys can be seen amongst the pages of PETE'S MECHANICAL TOYS.

COPYRIGHT Please note that all photographs are copyright but are freely available for you to copy for your own private use. For any kind of commercial use of these images you must seek approval first. Contact email address peterlongfils@yahoo.co.uk

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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.
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Top Photographs This Month
Wickham Trolley page 1  15 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit  (11)
Wickham Trolley page 3  15 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit  (8)
Wickham Trolley page 6  15 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit  (7)
Wickham Trolley fresh from the RVLR Workshops - 25 March 2008  15 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit  (7)
Wickham Trolley page 5  15 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit  (5)
Most Recent Collections
22nd Mar 200601 - RVLR - Scenes from the first railway - Northfield
29th Sep 200602 - RVLR - Scenes from the present railway - Rea Valley
1st Jan 197903 - The monochrome collection
27th May 200604 - RVLR - Stock
23rd Mar 200605 - The Industrial Collection
1st Jun 200606 - Construction of the RVLR
25th Jun 200707 - The evolution of No. 2 "ENID" - an 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Garratt style loco
25th Jul 200708 - Development of No. 11 "AFRICAN QUEEN" - a small live steam industrial loco
18th Sep 200609 - Construction of No. 12 "BREDON" - an 0-4-0T built from a Locolines' “Tiny” card kit
11th Aug 200710 - Construction of No. 13 "MALVERN" from a Locolines’ “Jumbo” kit
22nd Jun 200711 - Construction of No. 14 "WREKIN" - Built from a Locolines' “Hunslike” kit
13th Aug 200612 - Construction of Tram No. 2 - “ELIZABETH” - plywood construction
15th Oct 200613 - Construction of Tram No. 3 - “VICTORIA” - from a Locolines' card tram kit
31st Mar 200814 - Picture notes showing the construction of LYNX from a Locolines' CHUNKY kit
27th Mar 200815 - RVLR Wickham Trolley - How it was constructed from the Locolines’ kit
7th Dec 200616 - Construction of 4 Plank Wagons from a Locolines' card kit
3rd May 200817 - Construction of 3 plank dropside wagon for the RVLR from an AnDel Models kit
3rd May 200818 - Construction of 4 Plank 4 Wheeled Dropside Wagon Kit from I P Engineering
9th Mar 200719 - RVLR Workshops - A selection from the stock built for other railways
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LYNX arrives at Rea Falls with a short goods train - 22 May 2008
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