moors end

Moors End

Reinier Hendriksen (2000)

Moors End is a sleepy little hamlet in Cornwall. Situated on the edge of the vast Ding Dong Moor, Moors End is the terminus of the Ding Dong Moor Light Railway, a narrow gauge line running typically from nowhere to nowhere. A few times daily a short train arrives, drawn by a tiny locomotive. Moors End has a 13th Century church, a few houses, a pub and a garage.

This is the theme portrayed by Reinier with his museum quality precision modelling. All his buildings were made from good quality card and coloured with water based paint. Reinier used Pendon techniques, applying and colouring each brick and slate by hand. His early locomotives and rolling stock were made from kits, but recently Reinier had started working with sheet brass for his locomotives, and card for his finely detailed rolling stock.

Reinier was a regular contributor to the 009 News and became well known for his witty articles and excellent drawings. Regrettably we lost him in April 2000, aged only 51. Both in the Dutch Group and in the 009 Society as a whole he is sadly missed as a good friend and respected modeller. Luckily his work is still there: Moors End is still at his home, and his collection is being well cared for.

Models by Reinier were shown at Expo-NG, Swanley, Kent, on Saturday 28 October 2000.

Text and video captures: Ted Polet, by consent of Loes van der Klei.

	A short passenger train in the station. Left: a Duton kit produced this Decauville loco. The carriage is made of card (!). Right: two Ffestiniog-inspired bug boxes.
	Left: the well-known row of houses with the village shop in the foreground. Right: the garage with the advertisement for Ariel motors. Reinier loved old cars. Both the garage and the houses have interiors.
	The other extreme of the layout as it appeared in 1997. To the right is one of Reinier's Simplexes, of which he had several. This one has no motor, but quite recently Reinier worked on a motorised version only an inch in length.
	Left: overview over Moors End. Right: a converted Roco engine approaches with a single wagon.
	Left: the stone pack-horse bridge must have been there long before the railway came. Right: train in the station. The shelter has partly collapsed because Reinier's cat stepped on it. Reinier didn't mind very much as it looked well enough and left it.
	Left: a solitary passenger. Right: the loco shed with the fiddle yard behind.
	Left: 'Louisa', Reiniers favourite loco named after his partner Loes, with a works vehicle. Right: another motorless Simplex, pushed by wagon powered by an Arnold 'Köf' mechanism.
	Left: the Decauville with a short train. Right: Reinier operating Moors End during the 1997 Valkenburg exhibition.
	This Bagnall in my opinion is the most intricate model Reinier ever made. It has split frames, 5mm pinroller wheels, and outside cranks with a 1.5mm throw successfully driving the leading wheels. Believe it or not, it runs quite smoothly…
		Plan of Moors End, drawn by Reinier himself in the early 1990s.