Hi All.

I feel a bit of an idiot as I have another correction to make (what again?).The Rocal loco, it turns out it was a tank engine. The only reason I know this is because after my last blog I dug all my bits and pieces out and there was the Railway Modeller article "Internal combustion on the Aire Valley". Well it was 47 years ago. As mentioned in the article The body was parts of the Airfix Drewery. I guess I may as well continue with the the two pairs of railcars.. No prizes for knowing who they are named after. They were very useful vehicles. In the early days Derek and Maud & providing the short haul services between Saltaire and Morehead. Later they also worked some odd days on the Stony Ridge branch though normally service on this line was provided by railcars 103 and 104 (no names) and later by the the steam railcar. The branch service was run by one or other of the railcars, there were no loco hauled passenger trains on the branch. I was rather pleased with the bogie on number 103. The system worked very well and in addition to providing 6 wheel pick up it was also created three point suspension.Over the years I converted all the four wheeled stock to three point suspension. As there is only one more loco that got into print may as well finish the loco roster off. This was number 7 Stony River. In the Steam development article in Feb 1970 I mentioned I was looking at the possibility of a Shay. Some time later I received a Letter from Dave Rhind in as South Africa asking why build another U.S. loco what is wrong with a British built geared loco. Great I thought if there was such a thing. There at the end of the letter were details of the Avonside geared loco built for the Natal Sugar Company. The Avonside locos had worm and wheel drive. So along with the two drive shafts to the bogies this was correct. It was of all metal construction. It was of course a cousin to the Heisler. It performed sterling work hauling Co-il. One of the locos that never got into print was a huge freelance model of a Mallet loco. Huge in the sense it would not fit the A.V.R. loading Gauge. I confess I know not what happened to it. The other one was my scratch built model of Monarch. This ,along with the rest of the locos and rolling stock was sold on but that's for later.