Hythe Parkway - 1 down, 2 to go...

Entry posted by St. Simon February 13, 2010

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Hi Guys,

Just returned from the Newbury Show with Hythe! All in all, it was the best the layout has ever performed! The stock performed well, all but one point work faultlessly (but after a while that point worked well!), the new lighting gantry worked well (after we stopped breaking the bulbs! ).

We had an extra piece of stock with us, in the form of a Hornby Class 395, which was lent to us by High Wycombe & District Model Railway Society member Paul Chapman (Thanks Paul!). It did play up at the start, due to it derailing on the curve, but after putting the power car on the other end, it ran perfectly. I have to get one now!

The good thing was we have had an invite to atend Ab-rail at Abingdon lesiure centre next march and a possible invite to Reading in September! What surprised me was that at the beginning of the day there were 12 leaflets on the front and at the end, there was 1!

A few pictures, mainly of the Class 395:

The Layout set up and ready to go! (Dad at the time was talking!):

Southeastern Class 466 No. 466023 stands at Platform 1 with a Service to Ashford while Southeastern Highspeed Class 395 No. 395001 (owned by Paul Chapman) waits with a service to St. Pancras International

Cotswold Rail Class 08 No. 08847, on hire to EWS (DB Schenker) waits for it's next duty in the fueling point at Hythe Parkway:

Southeastern Highspeed Class 395 No. 395001 (owned by Paul Chapman) stands on the blocks at Platform 2 at Hythe Parkway after arriving with a service from St. Pancras International:

The Driver of Southeastern Class 466 No. 466023 has just seen the scratch to his door window as he gets ready for his next service:

Southeastern Class 466 No. 466023 readies to leave from Platform 3 with a service to London Victoria:

This photo shows the sleak outline of Class 395 No. 395001 (owned by Paul Chapman) as it stands at Platform 2 waiting to form an ECS move to Ashford Depot: