Dave Enefer has a couple of pages of Potato Railway images over at his excellent site covering the railways of Lincolnshire. All are from Nocton, but with such a huge estate that's no surprise.
Page 1 is here. Some very nice shots of trains in the fields at Nocton on this page, as well as workers loading potatoes.
Page 2 is here The best thing for me about this page of pictures is the images that contain shots of farm buildings. Any model of mine will include some farm buildings acting as view blocks and exits to the hidden storage areas.
The Lifu rail truck This might be the most important piece of film out there in relations to potato railways. The LIFU rail truck. manufactured by the liquid fuel company of the Isle of Wight.
Of course if you're very, very lucky, you might find one of these old cigarette cards on a well known online auction site. This is quite valuable to see as it suggests it was a chain driven four wheel driven creation. A model of this will certainly find its way onto whatever potato railway layout I build.
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