Bell End 7mm O scale
Bell End
Bell End is set on an imaginary ex GWR branch line in the rolling countryside of north Worcestershire. The branch line starts at Stourbridge Junction and heads south towards the village of Top Hagley where its passes under the Birmingham Road. Here sits a single platform and a small goods yard that serves the cattle market. Then the branch skirts around Hagley Hall and Park before following the route of what is now the A491 Feeder Road. A small station with a single track platform and simple goods yard serves the twin villages Holly Cross and Clent. The branch continues on to the hamlet of Bell End where a short goods only line continues to a small dairy. Passenger trains are made up of either a small prairie and B set, a 14xx and auto coach or an ex GWR railcar and shuttle between Stourbridge and Bell End. Empty milk tanks can usually be seen on the end of the passenger trains The branch sees a daily goods train, usually arriving around lunchtime, which again in the hands of a small prairie or pannier tank and there is an evening milk train to Birmingham There is also a private siding to the north of Bell End that serves the Government Pipeline and Storage System (GPSS), a secret fuel supply network created during the Second World War which included a branch running from Ellesmere Port to Avonmouth. It is believed that this private siding is back up to the main siding on the original Severn Valley at Stourport on Seven.
