Hi again.

The layout and buildings. I'm sure it would be just a bit boring to go into a lot of depth on this subject so I have selected items I hope might be of interest. I;think the clinker block works ;might be a good place to start. It's a poor man's crib on John Ahern's brick works. A couple of reasons. One, lack of space for a brick works. Two, it added another dimension to C-Oil. creating further rail traffic between the two works. Construction was a bit odd in using a complete alarm mechanism to drive it Now for £;3.99 you can get a nice compact low voltage motor and combined gear box. One drives the cable car on Port Maud . I found the prototype when I was working (as a relief signalman) at Engine Shed Jcn at Holbeck Shed. The owners were reluctant at first to let me take photographs of it ;I don't know who they thought I was.but in the end I got my pics. The Works was sited near Green Cove Halt a little way out of Saltaire. Not the best place near the local beauty spot. If any of you have the Railway Modeller, April 1968. featuring the works there's a photo of the works ;in situ on the layout. This is the only known published image of a scene on the aborted layout. The American railcars are on the high level line above the works. I'm working on attaching more images of this aborted line. If I might now digress;a bit. One day while working at Whitehall Jcn. at the north end of the Leeds triangle a freight train headed by a 9F had been stood at the home signal from Engine Shed while other traffic was worked by. On pulling off for the freight the driver opened the regulator just a little to much and it stuck open without any forward movement. It gradually dug itself into the rail. In the end the crew had to throw the fire out..I'm not sure all this time on how the 9F was rescued but four lengths of rail had to be replaced before normal traffic was resumed. Fortunately no one was injured and there were no booked passenger trains over that leg of the triangle.I was told the 9Fs were prone to this

One other scenic feature I was quite pleased with was the trees and the crane in the Forestry in the Aire Valley article in April 1975 ;Years later I tried to purchase some more of the Khahia grass I used for my original trees, I tried garden centres and flower shops all to no avail no one had ever heard of it..The crane was eventually motorised but I don't think it loaded many logs. The village of Stony Ridge had quite a bit of industry.for a place it's size. That's about for now I'll look at Danes Crossing Works and some other bits next time.