Welcome
The site is intended to attract new members to the BGS, provide useful information
to existing members, and provide a limited amount of information on the broad
gauge to anyone else who visits the site. It contains indexes to Society publications,
which will assist members to find information, and give non-members an idea
of the vast amount of information held by the BGS. There is a diary of events,
details of Society publications and products, and other items of interest. It
is not intended to be a source of free information to non-members - you will
have to join to gain access to it!
Main Index
This site is divided into sections to cover the main areas of interest of the
BGS. Choose the section you would like to visit.
- About The BGS - Broad Gauge
Society Home Page including News and Events, general information about the
BGS, benefits of membership and how to join us.
- Membership - Join the Broad Gauge Society
- Aims of the Society
- Origins of the Society
- eGroup - about the BGS eGroup, Objects
and Rules of the eGroup, joining the
eGroup and more.
- Contact Us - contacts at the BGS
- Membership Secretary, News, Historian, Committee and Broad Gauge Owner.
- Exhibitions - The BGS organise an exhibition of Broad
Gauge models and prototype information every two years. For many years this
has been held in Newbury, Berkshire, and non members are very welcome. Our
members also exhibit at some public model railway exhibitions, and the BGS
sometimes have a publicity stand.
- Broad Gauge Exhibition Newbury
2004
- Broad Gauge Exhibition Newbury 2002 - Report
of our 2002 exhibition.
- Broad Gauge Exhibition Newbury 2001 - includes
Chairman's Message and photos
of each stand. Stand 1: Bristol
Goods Shed, Stand 2: Edgware
Road, Stand 3: Dorchester
Junction, Stand 4: Firefly
Trust, Stand 5: Avonside,
Stand 6: Kevin Robertson Books,
Stand 7: Demonstration, Stand
8: CPL Products, Stand 9:
Coldrennick Road, Stand 10:
Watchet, Stand 11: IKB
Models, Stand 12: BGS Membership,
Stand 13: BGS Trade Stand,
Stand 14: Millenium Project
- Newbury Exhibition Map
- Field Trips - Every year, the BGS organise a field
trip to visit remaining Broad Gauge buildings and other artifacts.
- 2002 - West Cornwall - This year we started our
trip at Penzance, and ended up at Redruth
- 2001 - Vale of Neath - We explored the remains
of the Vale of Neath Railway around Aberdare in South Wales
- 2000 - West Somerset Railway - Most of the buildings
on the preserved WSR date from the broad gauge era. There is a photo
album of this fieldtrip, available only with Javascript. The Route, Additional
Notes and References are included here.
The report includes pictures or without
pictures depending on the speed of your internet connection.
- 1998 - Bristol & Exeter Railway - We visited
surviving sites in North Somerset
- History - A brief history
of the Broad Gauge, and information and photographs of locomotives, rolling
stock, architecture and other aspects of the railways until the final gauge
conversion in 1892.
- Broad Gauge History
- Lines and Architecture - Wycombe
Railway - The Wycombe Railway ran from Maidenhead to High Wycombe, and
was later extended to Oxford
- Locomotive History
- Research - Tips, Tracking Railway
Archives Project, Record Offices, Universities and other collections, Libraries,
Bibliography
- Rolling Stock
- Models Illustrated
descriptions of layouts and individual models built by our members, in a variety
of scales.
- Layouts - Avonside, Cheltenham
Engine Shed - 4mm Scale Layout, Coldrennick
Road - ScaleSeven Layout, Dorchester Junction
- 4mm Scale Layout, Hinton Burtle - 4mm
Scale Layout, Kingswear - 7mm Scale Layout
and Teign House Sidings - ScaleSeven Layout.
- Rolling Stock - Locos and Rolling Stock for Coldrennick
Road and Teign House Sidings, Cornwall Railway
Accident Van - scratchbuilding in plastic, and
Great Western convertible wagon - an easy first step in broad gauge modelling.
- Products - The BGS
produce a wide range of kits and components available to BGS members only
in 2mm, 4mm
and 7mm scales. Broad Gauge Society
Badges are listed here. For prototype
information and references about 4mm product F020 - 1840 Iron Tilt Wagon,
click here.
- Publications
- The BGS produce regular and "one-off" publications. This section gives details,
and has indexes to the News-Sheet and Broadsheet.
- Taunton in the 1880's
- A3 Drawings
- Broadsheet
- Broadsheet index
- News-Sheets Index - No
120: March 2001, No 116: July 2000, No
115: May 2000, No 114: March 2000, No
113: January 2000, No 112: November 1999,
No 111: September 1999, No
110: July 1999, No 109: May 1999, No
108: March 1999, No 107: January 1999,
No 106: November 1998, No
105: September 1998, No 104: July 1998,
No 103: May 1998, No
102: March 1998, No 101: January 1998
- Data Sheets
- Data Files
- Books and Other Publications
- Today - Information on
surviving Broad Gauge locomotives, rolling stock, buildings and other artifacts,
plus details of museums, preservation sites and other locations where things
of Broad Gauge interest may be seen.
- Museums
Bristol Industrial Museum
Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire
National Railway Museum, York
South Devon Railway, Buckfastleigh,
Devon
Museum of the Great Western Railway,
Swindon
West Somerset Railway, Minehead,
Somerset
Other museums: Bovey Tracey Station,
Devon; Bristol - Empire &
Commonwealth Museum; Instow
Signal Box, North Devon; Newton
Abbot Town & GWR Museum, Devon.
- Campaigns & Preservation Efforts
- includes information and photos
of High Wycombe Station.
- Locomotives Today - includes information
and photos of Firefly - current
to December 2002 and Iron Duke
and Tiny.
- The Azores - Although the intention
of the BGS is to cover 7ft gauge railways in the UK, there is a lot of interest
in the locomotives that still survive in The Azores. These were built to work
this line and are not typical of British BG locomotives.
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