Kingswell Street

Bassett Lowke were recorded as building what appears to be a gauge 2 layout in their workshops at Kingswell Street, Northampton in 1908:

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This image appears in 'The Young Engineer' written by Hammond Hall and published in 1908. Another image of  the same layout was
found in a box of glass negatives which accompanied Mr Albert Franklin's models, recovered and passed on to us by Mr Phil Nunn.Here's a positive print from the negative:



In this image the station name 'Kingswell Street' can just be made out while a poster on the retaining wall reads 'Alight here for Bassett Lowkes'.
Nothing is known of what happened to this layout or any of the stock shown in the pictures.

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