12. The Boston and Frieston Shore Tramway, progress

I thought it time I showed something of the main layout in the shed. So far I have the boards for the left hand side done, and have some 'sketch' buildings set out to see how they fit. These are based on photos I took some years ago and architects drawings I dragged up from the Boston council planning department. The area at the front will be the quayside and I still have to work out the track plan for the railway.

I've included a picture of the far left end, as well as an old picture of the original site, to see how they compare. Building models are purely for visual aid in eventual planning. The track disappearing off screen will not be there, but shows how the real line was supposed to run. Clearance would have been very tight.

The building on the right end, with track going round the back, is the loco works. I real life the area is occupied by Georgian warehouse, now mainly converted into flats, and in the 1940s were part of the scenery in the film 'One of our aircraft is missing', when the town was supposed to be somewhere in Holland.