'Bleakhouse Road' - prelude to play
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With the RMWeb event at Coventry a mere three weeks away, it was time to get 'Bleakhouse Road' and put it up for testing, so that's what I did today. The layout last appeared in public at Weston-super-Mare in January 2013, which, for various personal reasons, was the most recent exhibition I've attended with one of my own layouts.
The layout was put up, but I didn't bother with the buildings and trees that aren't fixed down, this was primarily about ensuring that the layout was still in full working order and to test some of the locos that I'll be bringing.
All was well, and in fact it was the first time that 82044 had run on BHR.
Here is the layout put up, with one of the fiddle yards attached. It will have another fiddle yard at the opposite end at Coventry, representing the South Polden Light Railway:
Here are some of the locos I may be bringing, haven't decided on the final roster yet.
'Plantagenet' masquerades as a NCB loco on 'Engine Wood', but on BHR she works the South Polden Light Railway. Here she is making a semi-legal movement on the main line:
As times move on and in the unlikely timeline that I have modelled, the light railway invested in more modern motive power:
Pannier 4634 (Templecombe) shunts a couple of 16t mineral wagons with coal for the local coal merchant:
An alternative light railway diesel is 'Buntie', a scratchbuit 0-4-0 by Brian Clarke, and based on Barclay practice:
One of the two Ivatt tanks available in the run round loop:
A slightly less likely but nonetheless rather pleasant Stanier 2-6-4T:
The S&D on the Somerset Levels in the early 1960s wouldn't be complete without a 22XX:
What if the line had survived into the 1970s?
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