A pleasant few hours was spent at the cabin yesterday, in the company of some guests ( = friends) from the Merseyside club.

We are frequently in the cabin so anyone is welcome, by prior arrangement just in case we are out and about.

After the guys had left I snapped a couple of photos of the REX Fastline 66/3s (and a car train which was passing, again taken with the cheap snappy so no real depth of field but still give the ideas for some interesting possible shots.

No details have been added to the 66/3s yet - they have been fully tested before the knife comes out. Next weekend I will be adding the buffer beam details and then we will be sorting out (thanks to Big Jim and Pete Harvey) the depot transfers but more of that in the future.

Called on into the bay

An unusual visitor to the scrap yard !

The signalbox cat watches the 66/3 trundle past - he's going to be annoyed when he realises the box has been abolished and there won't be anymore food for him !

The box had a panel fitted many years ago and so the run outs have all been removed (honest guvnor)

Hot air balloons are handy for those hard to reach shots.

Like buses - you wait for ages and then two turn up.

With a bit of photoshopping to add a background (and a level camera !) one for the real / model thread maybe.

Another view I quite like, multiple focus points combined to give a good depth of field would make this a good view (in my opinion)

and this maybe

and this

Flashback to pre DRS days.

Of course Buddy wanted to help ...