The lowbed wagon was built by the Auckland Regional Council in 1992 to carry a Gunite machine which is used to spray gunite (concrete) to line the tunnels carrying the water pipelines in the Waitakere Ranges, west of Auckland, New Zealand.
Plan provided by Paul Napier
It has since been use to carry a small […]

As with “Possum”, the Driving Creek Railroad’s utility loco may seem a little on the large side for most Gn15 layouts, but if you’ve got the space and are thinking big …

The Driving Creek Railroad’s railcar may seem a little on the large side for most Gn15 layouts, but if you”ve got the space and are thinking big …

Paul Napier has provided more plans from New Zealand’s Driving Creek Railroad. This plan is for their bogie well deck wagon.

Not content with giving us plans for the DCR’s rolling stock, Paul Napier has also sent us plans of one of the bridges on the line.

This structure is the largest and most complex on the railway. Spanning a deep gulch is the main span, length 13.87m, a box-section lattice truss carrying the main line rail track in both the upper and lower levels. A spiral on the north side on the gulch enables trains to cross over the lower level […]

Paul Napier has provided more plans from New Zealand’s Driving Creek Railroad.

More plans from the Driving Creek Railroad - this time featuring their relatively small diesel.

Paul Napier has provided more plans from New Zealand’s Driving Creek Railroad.

Thanks to Mike Decker and Ian Holmes who have provided the plans and photographs respectively, we have here the most detailed prototype plans we’ve ever been fortunate enough to features on Gn15.info.

The early motive power woes of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Line are often waxed lyrical in literature on that railways history. It is true to say with running an all-year round service with heavy goods and huge numbers of passengers in the season ‘La’al Ratty’ was short of motive power with the guts to do […]

Extracts from Minimum Gauge Railways, by Sir Arthur Heywood