NER narrow gauge proposal

Chris Veitch

Western Thunderer
In discussions on another forum I've mentioned a clear recollection - albeit from a few decades ago - of reading of an NER proposal for a 3'0" gauge line which I think was somewhere in North Yorkshire and seeing a GA drawing for an 0-6-0T which looked like a slightly shrunken J72. I have a feeling it was in a borrowed copy of Ken Hoole's Darlington North Road Locomotive Works but I've never seen a copy since and so can't confirm this.

On the basis that there are many knowledgable pre-grouping folk* here, can anyone confirm that I'm not making this up? There was a suggestion that I'd seen a proposal for the North Holderness Light Railway.

* By interests, rather than age.
 

Neil

Western Thunderer
I think it may have been a magazine article in the Railway Modeller. I remember seeing plans &/or perhaps a model of a narrow gauge outside frame and cylinder 0-6-0 like a shrunken J72. The piece was definitely linked to the proposed North Holderness Light Railway.
 

Chris Veitch

Western Thunderer
Thanks chaps - my recollection definitely wasn't of a model and it was over about 25 years ago, so I'd suspect that the NERA drawings came from the same source as what I'd seen (I don't think I've ever come across an NERA magazine).
 

tomburnham

Member
Chris,
Drawings of two types of narrow gauge coaches and the proposed 2ft gauge locomotive appeared as a supplement to the North Eastern Express (the journal of the North Eastern Railway Association) No. 110, February 1988.
Copyright is credited to the Ken North Hoole Collection so the original NER drawings or copies thereof should be at the Ken Hoole Study Centre, Head of Steam Museum, North Road Station, Darlington.
https://www.darlington.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/head-of-steam/collections/ken-hoole-study-centre/
Alternatively, the Archivist of the NERA could provide a copy of the supplement. NERA: Archive

Tom.
 
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