Clavering Hundreds Loop

History - the imaginary ten mile long loop would start from a London facing junction north of Bishop Stortford follow the upper reaches of the River Stort with stations at Hazel End (for the village of Farnham, the name is used to avoid confusion), Manuden, Berden (Little London), and Clavering. It then uses the valley of the Wicken Water to reach a Cambridge facing junction north of Newport. Population peaked in 1851 (3,000) and declined there after by 1901 to 2,215. Hopefully a loop would stabilise the population at about 2,500. The economy is arable (peas, beans, wheat, potatoes, sugar beet, and barley) farming with watercress beds and mills. There might have been outbound mineral traffic as there were three pits in the valley working the underlying chalk, a "lime quarry" near Hazel End and deep stretch of clean sand south of Little London near Berden. A strong dose of modellers licence has been applied. I've assumed mineral traffic kept the loop open and the passenger service was rationalised with bus stop shelters and a railbus then a class 121 bubble car. The layouts are set in the late 1990s with passenger service operated by Anglia Railways using a bubble car and goods by various rail freight operators.