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Building a cattle creep

Getting Practical ALL SKILL LEVELS

MODEL RAILWAYS can be very educational. I only learnt what a “Cattle Creep” was in the 1980s, when Wills introduced their kit (SS38) for an attractive stone-built version. At the time, magazines happily explained the role of this little thing that wasn't a bridge.

For those not well versed in farm lore, a cattle creep allows the herd to move around the farm when it's been cut in half by a railway. Normally too small for anything bigger than a full-grown Friesian to pass through, they can be found all over the country.

One example can be found under the trackbed of the Lynton and Barnstaple railway, and it's this that Paul Levy of L&B Resin

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