HOW TO… MODEL HORSES
Horses have always been a very useful animal to mankind for haulage, military and carrying purposes. So much so, that we still use the horsepower unit to measure work rate – about 14.9 horses per horsepower. Early railway locomotives were known as iron horses. In Edwardian times, well over a million horses were in use on Britain’s roads. The railways had, since their inception, used large numbers of horses for transport and for shunting duties. Particularly at rural stations, horses were often employed on the latter duty where a locomotive wasn’t available, or when it was simply easier to employ a horse. When British Railways was formed in 1948, it inherited over 9000 horses and the last didn’t go until 1967. Horses can still be seen on Britain’s roads today and keeping horses is still a major leisure time pursuit for many people.
There are more railway models appearing for earlier eras and this gives us greater reason to consider modelling horses as part of
