Pottering between jobs awaiting replacement permanent way for the south fan of sidings, I have tried to maintain my motivation by composing a few pictures of wagon-load goods trains.  Taking delivery this week of a new Bachmann 'Pipe' SOV, I included it in a 'military special' from the West Country, pulled by a Hymek - such a handsome loco.  I took @Fat Controller 's idea of having a filing cabinet buttressed by stout timbers in a VVV as a load.  Thanks!

The local copper keeps an eye on the wagon with the ammunition, and the Bedford positions itself to take the filing-cabinet.

Here a different train arrives - the daily Up Goods from Tilling port - with some home-made steel loads rather too small to see: some concrete reinforcing mesh (to be rusted) and some 6" R.S.J. for the local builder's merchant.  The '71' is pretending to be a '74'.

Again, the lack of suitable figures is annoying.  I am trying to think of a shot that captured some of the atmosphere of layouts seen recently exhibiting a real sense of abandonment.  Almost a 'last train to clear out the wagons before the track-lifter moved in', with empty expanses of hard-standing and sidings, but I can not get the result wanted in an eye-level shot.  Perhaps just a '73' with only three wagons?  Time next weekend, I hope, to try more compositions.