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Worsley Works, is a manufacturer of kits for model railway carriage
Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
s and locomotive
Locomotive

A locomotive is a Rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin language loco - "from a place", Ablative case of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine,....
s, owned and run from Worsley
Worsley

Worsley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the course of Worsley Brook, west of Manchester....
, UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, by Allen Doherty.

Worsley Works is well-known in the finescale modelling world, especially in less-popular scales, including British HO scale
HO scale

H0 scale is the most popular scale model of model railway in most of the English-speaking world . In H0 scale, represents 1 real foot; this ratio works out to about 1:87.086....
  and 3mm
TT scale

TT scale is a niche model railway scale, whose name stands for Table Top. Its 1:120 scale and 12 mm Rail gauge sizes it almost halfway between HO scale and N scale ....
-scale model
Scale model

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s along with various kits for Narrow Gauge railways, particularly OO9
OO9

OO9 is a model railway scale and gauge combination of 4mm scale and 9 mm gauge tracks, which models a Prototype#Scale_modeling track gauge of ....
 and OOn3
OOn3

OOn3 is a model railway standard for modelling 3 foot gauge narrow gauge railways in 4mm scale scale with 12mm gauge track. 3 foot prototypes were common in Ireland and the Isle of Man, but the scale is not generally used outside the British Isles....
.

Assembly of Worsley Works kits, like for most other kits that comprise only etched components, is challenging.






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Worsley Works, is a manufacturer of kits for model railway carriage
Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
s and locomotive
Locomotive

A locomotive is a Rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin language loco - "from a place", Ablative case of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine,....
s, owned and run from Worsley
Worsley

Worsley is a town within the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the course of Worsley Brook, west of Manchester....
, UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, by Allen Doherty.

Worsley Works is well-known in the finescale modelling world, especially in less-popular scales, including British HO scale
HO scale

H0 scale is the most popular scale model of model railway in most of the English-speaking world . In H0 scale, represents 1 real foot; this ratio works out to about 1:87.086....
  and 3mm
TT scale

TT scale is a niche model railway scale, whose name stands for Table Top. Its 1:120 scale and 12 mm Rail gauge sizes it almost halfway between HO scale and N scale ....
-scale model
Scale model

Sorry, no overview for this topic
s along with various kits for Narrow Gauge railways, particularly OO9
OO9

OO9 is a model railway scale and gauge combination of 4mm scale and 9 mm gauge tracks, which models a Prototype#Scale_modeling track gauge of ....
 and OOn3
OOn3

OOn3 is a model railway standard for modelling 3 foot gauge narrow gauge railways in 4mm scale scale with 12mm gauge track. 3 foot prototypes were common in Ireland and the Isle of Man, but the scale is not generally used outside the British Isles....
.

Assembly of Worsley Works kits, like for most other kits that comprise only etched components, is challenging. Worsley specialises in what are described as 'scratch aid' kits, a term used to indicate that the kits are not intended to build complete models in themselves, but rather to provide the essential components to assist the process of scratch building
Scratch building

Scratch building is the process of building a scale model from raw materials, rather than building it from a commercial kit, kitbashing or buying it pre-assembled....
. By manufacturing only the etched brass
Brass

Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties. In comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin....
 or nickel silver
Nickel silver

Nickel silver is a metal alloy of copper with nickel and often but not always zinc. It is named for its silvery appearance, but contains no elemental silver unless plated....
 components of the models, the company is able to produce a wide range of kits in many scales. They have also taken on many commissions including a Metropolitan 4-4-4T recently.

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