FENLAND FASCINATION: BUILDING BRIDGE 199A
One of the most common pieces of advice for anyone who wants to build a model railway is to plan your landscape and scenery first. Railways were built through the landscape and not on it. Mountains were skirted, hills were tunnelled through and rivers bridged. Fall into the trap of building your baseboards first, laying track and then building your tunnels and bridges, and you’ll be left with an unrealistic flat landscape that bears more resemblance to a snooker table than the real world.
Except that there was one location where the railway came first and the river came second…and where the landscape really is as flat as a snooker table!
Outsiders always view the Fens -the southern tip of Lincolnshire, the very top corner of Norfolk and the right flank of
