Well its been a weird weekend, feeling really washed out on Saturday I really had no energy to do any modelling, my brain was willing but my body refused to cooperate so I spent the time on my other pastime SULKING. Thankfully I was able to wallow in my own misery and the Domestic Overlord was away for the day visiting family.

Today though I decided enough was enough, and getting the domestic chores out of the way, like the good little boy that I am I decided to play with my trainset. The storage yard on Foster street not including the branch line can hold 9 trains, not much of a challenge to fill this I thought, but two roads remained stubbornly empty.

Anyway two of the roads are taken up with 11 coach passenger rakes representing diverted expresses. and I must admit I use to like watching these circle the layout with a maroon Jubilee of Scott and the front, that is until one of the rakes has suddenly decided to constantly uncouple randomly along its consist.

Still these frustrations just mean we have new little challenges to overcome and that's what makes or hobby so enjoyable.... SOD THAT I parked the offending train, and decided to run another one of my favourites a local hauled by a maroon compound, yes you have guessed it the gods of modelling were against me, and for no obvious reason, the loco started paying up, so it was swapped with a black class mate.

Things we running well now, and the two locomotives happily ran around the layout pulling their trains with ease, even the branch automation was working well. So you can guess what happened next, yes that's right I ruined it

Recent Ebay purchases, and the odd exhibition buy has resulted in a couple of additions to the fleet, as you know one is slowly being converted into an Ivatt class 4 (I need to order some transfers), but I now have three Black 5's and an 8F to pass through the old locomotive works. Two of the Black 5's are more recent china produced machines (engine driven) and one is the older bodied type, which I had intended to see if I could convert to a Stannier mogul, that is until I ordered a newer body for it.

What have I done, I'm supposed to be completing jobs not adding to the list of jobs to be completed, is Railway modelling like this for everyone? Until the next time as ever Happy Modelling