This website is being developed to bring together all those who have any active interest in all aspects of the wonderful Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. It is amazing that this railway continues to fascinate enthusiasts everywhere and is probably the most loved narrow gauge line in the world.

 

Your interest may be just following the prototype slowly coming back to life, with the quickening progress to its full restoration. Perhaps a modeller in one of the many scales that have seen the production of many fine models and layouts, a collector of memorabilia or just a dreamer of what might have been.

 

Our aim is to be able to promote L&B R by raising its profile everywhere, with the objective of providing much needed funds for its further development by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust.

 

By bringing together like-minded people we hope to have a national celebration of the Lynton & Barnstaple railway by way of an exhibition in the future. This will combine exhibiting the modelling skills of enthusiasts in as many forms as we are able to source, and hopefully displaying some of the 12" to the foot railway gems that have survived and remain in private hands, but are cherished by every narrow gauge enthusiast, especially the follower of the L&BR.

 

We intend as far as possible to maintain an index of all of the models and railway layouts we can trace. It does not matter what scale you model in or if it is fine scale or freelance - if you model the L&B we want to hear from you, and include you in our list.

 

We hope exhibition managers will use this facility to bring the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway to their own exhibitions and a special aspect of this site will be the provision of a resources section, so that modellers and researchers will be able to find the items they are seeking to complete their own projects.

 

This website will only grow if we continue to receive copy and photographs....please help make it a success.

 

It is fitting that a special mention must be given to J Ahern (Madder Valley Railway, now housed at Pendon) who wrote the series of books in the 1940’s on how to model railways properly when 3 rail Hornby Dublo was more the norm. Also, P.D.Hancock for his inspirational and seminal articles in the 1950s about his narrow gauge line the Craig and Mertonford Railway. The L&B clearly influenced both of these authors as it still continues to excite and influence the railway modelling fraternity today.

Madder Valley Railway (Now at Pendon Museum)

Madder Valley Railway (Now at Pendon Museum)