Travis, Skipton & LGB
TRAVIS as you can see is a barge, so what is it doing in the model railway section.
To quote Andy “We're down in Skipton for the festival weekend again this year. I have an LGB garden railway that I set up on Travis's cabin roof when at rallies”
Travis is a replica Dutch Barge built to order by Pickwell and Arnold in 2004, it is 58’ x 12’ and weighs about 40 tons. It has a 90hp Ford diesel engine, 5500lt water tanks and holds 2250lt fuel tanks and Kabola central heating.
Andy has for many years wanted to live on a canal boat, but Wendy his ‘better half’ made a stipulation that only if it was a wide beam she would agree, and so four years ago they moved onto Travis.
To quote Andy again “It’s a good solid boat and we love living on it”.
The locomotive close up - LGB 0-4-0 StLB Stainz Steam, catalogue number 21211, livery period 1892.
So who said that you can't have a G scale layout on a boat?
Travis in January 2010
These pictures were taken onboard Travis
All pictures courtesy of Andy at Boat and Canal Forum Your Gateway to the Boats and Canals World
Our associate Railways Forum for all scales and gauges up to and including full size.
Posted on 06/05/2009 - Updated 08/01/2010
