With Marc's post of that superb armoured railway model in mind, here are a few shots (from the Gnatterbox Forum) of the armoured train that saw service (perhaps symbolic more than actual) on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch (http://www.rhdr.org.uk/rhdr/home_flash.html) during the war, the railway having been requisitioned by the War Department. There's a certain pythonesque quality to this venture!
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Paul
So this is the real reason why Adolf called off the invasion of Britain , not because we won the war in the air !
He must have reckoned he had a better chance of winning against the Ruskies than the Might of the British army .
Nick
Quote from: Roughboy on November 26, 2009, 09:14:02 AM
With Marc's post of that superb armoured railway model in mind, here are a few shots (from the Gnatterbox Forum) of the armoured train that saw service (perhaps symbolic more than actual) on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch (http://www.rhdr.org.uk/rhdr/home_flash.html) during the war, the railway having been requisitioned by the War Department. There's a certain pythonesque quality to this venture
Haha, those images are classics!
It has been claimed that a german fighter plane crashed while attacking this train. The reason was supposedly that the pilot misjudged the altitude, because he tought he was attacking a full size train!
-Regards, Hauk
Having visited the RH&DRR, they claim that the German Plane was a ligit "Kill" Most common theory is that train is 15" gauge and the cars and locos are 1/3 size of normal RR equip. With little to give the piolet "scale" he became a sitting duck.
Really worth a visit when they have one of there steam outing weekends. When I was there they had over a dozen locomotives under steam and were running a very full excursion schedule along the entire line. RR is still used to carry children to and from school, housewives to town and is quite rilfan friendly.