BR Standard 73066 heads 'The Queenshead' block cement train at High Wycombe on 28-09-1963
7929 'Wyke Hall' on a mixed freight at High Wycombe in May 1964
6924 'Grantley Hall' hauls 2 new Brush type 4 Diesels -D1707 and D1708 to Old Oak Common 81A from Loughborough Works. Location is between High Wycombe and Beaconsfield approx Oct or Nov 1963
LMS Class 5P 42954 on up Leicester Parcels at High Wycombe 28-09-1963
Track plan completed and will not be changed! (apart from maybe an additional long siding behind the shed road.....perhaps...)
Modelled area will be between the 2 bridges, 1 brick and 1 girder, to be scenic break material.
Track will be SMP with hand built points. I have found a box purchased in the 80's that I never used, very handy indeed.
DCC will be used for the first time, which sounds very up to date, but with many Loco's to convert perhaps a tad optimistic.
Three 1200
This is my scratch built model of Beaconsfield Signal Box constructed over 20 years ago and 'boxed'. I will be changing the nameplate in due course.
This a picture of the identical box at Gerrards Cross in the 80's that survived much longer than Beaconsfield. Measurements were taken and notes for future model on site.
70051 'Firth of Forth' on Leicester Parcels being run in at Haddenham to allow the passage of an express in 1963
42250 shunting at Haddenham 1963
Class 8F 48387 being run in at Haddenham to allow the passage of a following express in 1964
WR Blue Pullman at Haddenham in 1963
Welcome to the birth of my new layout CARLSDEN set on the GW/GC Joint line set in the 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's.
The GW/GC Joint line was the last Main Line Steam railway to be built in England which finally opened for passenger traffic on April 2nd 1906.
The Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by The Oakwood Press together with 'The Final Link' by Dennis Edwards & Ron Pigram published by Midas Books cover all the history saving me going
