Two Tracks & History

Canvey Railway and Model Engineering Club.

Two tracks & a bit of history.

12-07-23

Here you will find links to articles (below) about our history and information about the tracks. More will be added as soon as it becomes available.

Part two is further down.

The Canvey Island Miniature Railway has two separate tracks for our members and the public to ride on. The oldest track is a raised 5 inch & 3 1/2 inch gauge track that was constructed in the 1970s. It is approximately 460 meters (1500 feet) in length; when we open to the public we take the public round the raised circuit twice.

The ground level track was constructed in the late 1990s. The track is a 7 1/4 inch & 5 inch gauge. The ground level track has a signal box, pneumatically operated points & signalling, a bridge over water, turntables, loading bays and a carriage shed. The ground level track has an outer and inner circuit, when we are open to the public we go round both the outer and inner tracks. The total length of all the ground level track, that's all running lines including sidings which is approximately just under 1600 meters (1 mile) in length.

Happenings in pictures from yester-year.

Inside the 1980 club house

The outside 1980 club house

Club house and ticket office in the 1980

Ticket office in the 1980 (notice the lack of tree's ?)

1997 The very start of the ground level outer track.

1998? The rail/road crossing being put in

Cira 2000 No coal shed

Now doesnt the station look a bit ,,,,?,,,?,,,, naked?

How clean the balast looks

No thats not the same fence

Yes we even had weeds back in the day.

10 January 2012 fixing the rain drain or cabling channel

Finished with steps to spare.

20th July 2012 suddenly the heavens opened

A closer look at the rain on the roof

2017 Replacing roof tiles on the signal box