The Smoghampton & Greenhills
Railway
This layout was built by Ned Williams as a tribute to his childhood
friend Francis Ashley, The Smoghampton & Greenhills Railway is
the only Gauge 2 layout known to have existed in modern times,
although now sadly dismantled. The layout was twice exhibited at the
Warwickshire Exhibition Centre. Here are some of Ned's photographs.
Here is Ned with Francis Ashley, and Ned's letter to 'Model
Engineer' following the Bicester G1MRA show where the G2 layout was
assembled.
Here is Ned's letter to 'Model Engineer', reproduced with his
permission:
One Gauge 2 treasure preserved by Francis and subsequently by Ned is
a most impressive girder bridge, believed to be the one illustrated
by Greenly in 'Models, Locomotives and Railways' in July, 1913:
Ned's article describing this can be found in Garden Rail,
February 2023. Appropriately, the bridge has subsequently found a
new life on a magnificent '0' gauge layout in the South of England,
as discovered and photographed by Adrian Johnstone:
Clement Crabbe's bridge today.
