Penfold Priory

Dimensions: 28'-0" long (including the fiddle yard) x 2'-6" wide.

Benedictine monks arrived here in the 12th century, settling and establishing a prosperous religious centre at an important river crossing of borderlands.

The township grew alongside the monastery in successive centuries with its town charter and developed into a thriving brewing and agriculture centre. By the 1840's the good burghers of Penfold saw the emerging railway as further means to economise development with the wider world and improve the town's growth.

Through the growth of the railways the township now has a cross country terminus station to be proud of, facilities for the general goods, livestock, agricultural merchandise and produce.

With an attractive market and history it is a tourist visitor destination, and as a religious centre, still attracts modern day pilgrims.

The era is circa 1930/40 in GWR days with LMS having running rights. The trains enter the scene through the over bridge, with the loco shed facilities on the left. Passing the signal cabin and coal yard, coming into the busy terminus (note the gem of a station building), with goods shed, loading and cattle dock and branch bay platform.

The locomotives are kit built, the rolling stock a mixture of kit and scratch built, whilst all the buildings are scratch built using various materials and methods, all that O gauge demands. Recently with arrival of good quality ready to run locomotives and rolling stock, the RTR items are bolstering the fleet.