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    About Us; Ken Cooper, Peter Bakke, Barry Lawrence, Peter Coulter and Henrik Laurell.
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  • Welcome to 78n18 scale
    Welcome to 78n18 scale, the site where we live for model trains in 7/8in scale on 32mm gauge tracks. Focus for this site is both models and real-life trains with 18-20inch gauge, like the ones at Woolwich and Waltham Abbey in the UK.
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  • Makers, Back2bay6
    Back2bay6 sells several different items in 1:12 usable for our scale.
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  • Manufacturers
    this folder contains presentation of different makers for 7/8in scale.
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  • Manufacturers, Simply 78ths
    a few kit examples from simply78.
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  • Prototypes
    Main folder for prototype information.
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  • Prototypes, UK, Bolton Model Poultry Farm
    W.G.Bagnall Limited of Stafford built 1560 of 1899 supplied to the Brede Vally Pumping Station, and number 1907 of 1909 which went to the Bolton Model Poultry Farm
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  • Prototypes, UK, Brede Vally Pumping Station
    W.G.Bagnall Limited of Stafford built 1560 of 1899 supplied to the Brede Vally Pumping Station, and number 1907 of 1909 which went to the Bolton Model Poultry Farm
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  • Prototypes, UK, Camden Fort in Cork Harbour
    Camden Fort in Cork Harbour, in County Cork, Ireland.
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  • Prototypes, UK, Chatham Dockyard
    Chatham was a shooting ground area. They did use there 18in gauge system for transporting ammunitions, troops and targets for training purposes out on the fields.
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  • Prototypes, UK
    UK was the promised land for 18-inch gauge railways. There was several in different areas. Mostly industry and militaty, but also some carying passengers.
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  • Prototypes, UK, The Crewe Works System
    Crewe is a locomotive creator. For transport of boilers and other heavy parts, they did create a small 18in system which soon did expand all around the works. This was very much the start for 18in gauge in the UK. The locomotives used at Crewe was mai
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  • Prototypes, UK, The Deptford System
    The last of the 18in gauge steam-operated military service lines to be opened in UK, was the system which served the Army Service Corps depot at Deptford.
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  • Prototypes, UK, Geevor Tin Mine
    Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sofar very little info, If you know anything about this line, please tell us.
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  • Prototypes, UK, The Horwich Works System
    The Crewe Works system inspired other 18in gauge lines at a number of site elsewhere in the UK. The Horwich Works is one of those examples. Same locos and cast iron trackwork was used.
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  • Prototypes, UK, The John Knowles System
    Of the steam worked lines of 18in gauge in the UK remaining for consideration, the most historically significant was the John Knowles system which served the Mount Pleasant clay processing works near Woodwille in Leicestershire.
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  • Prototypes, UK, Willans & Robinson of Queensferry
    The area on the Dee Estuary around Queensferry, Shotton and Hawarden is well known for its steel works
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  • Prototypes, UK, Sand Hutton Light Railway
    By the End of 1920 progress on the laying of the line had reached Sand Hutton and the Claxton branch. More powerful locos was needed due to gradient of 8%. There was at this time a fair amount of 18in gauge equipment available from the Ministry of Mun
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  • Prototypes, UK, Sylva Springs Watercress Railway
    One line that is still in operation is the Sylva Springs Watercress railway at Bere Regis in Dorset. Built to a gauge of 18 inches, this line is used to bring the harvested Watercress in from the growing beds.
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  • Prototypes, UK, Waltham Abbey
    A few traces survive to show that there was a network of railways at the Royal Gunpowder Mills as extensive as the waterways. Railways did not come here until new steam – powered mills were built from 1856 to help meet the demands of the Crimean War.
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  • Prototypes, UK, RAR in Woolwich
    The Royal Arsenal at Woolwich possessed probably the most complete system of shop railways to be found in any engineering works in the country (UK).
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