Owd Bob

Ms. Grace. The Tymes.

There's some reet funny nicknames around here for the towns and villages i do agree Apollo, there's one on't other side of Bowton called Knob End! I always like going up Bag ( another stupid name)Lane at Atherton in the car, and looking at the remnants of the old cobbled station yard, but most has nearly vanished now, and i do like tracing up the route of the old Bolton to Leigh opened in 1830-ish from Bag Ln. to Chequerbent....Mr. Sweeneys books are superb and i've been to a few of his slide show/lectures that he used to give. In one of his books he says that there are stone sleepers still set in a field up Chequerbent from the 1830 line, they should still be there as i've only ever seen Cows in that field for the last 30 years. Edwardian many thanks i've more old pics to post yet...i better start drip feeding them from now on, well! until i can get the line back up and running, I'm getting older, poorer and a lot more infirm as the days go by, and it sure as heck makes you cut back a lot...not just on the railway stuff either ....my advise to anybody doing a new garden line is think and plan it to be used for many years ahead and not just for now! I'd deffo' say get it off the ground from the start....now where's my 'firey Jack' gone.

T'was Bedford basin Apollo Tunnel went down under the towns main railway station and to a coal drop on the canal. For a pie-eater tha knows a few things abawt Leyth! I don't know about being fitter more like thicker for goin' owt in it! All this has now gone on my railway It all went when i got owd-er and ill-er and we had to raise it all up off the ground for better access etc, you could'nt beat the proper ground level line for plenty of healthy plants and especially for having some nice Green Grass around it, it's a bit harder trying to get the same effect two foot up in the air now but i try my best with planters on stilts...it could still do with some grass though

A few more old ones.

A Hard Rains Gonna Fall. Bob Dylan.

....and add some Redex or similar as well before flooring it.

The small Allen key headed grub screw on the regulator arm from the servo on 'Warrior' kept coming loose so i filed a small flat onto the shaft after working out the correct position, and i put some thread-lock on it, all went back nice and tight so now hopefully i can control it a lot better than i did on its last steaming! I cleaned the loco up a lot as well and got rid of a bit of weathering. Some pics' of yesterdays doings with some more old ones thrown in. Old stuff!

Nice Legs Shame About The Face. The Monks.

All in all O.R. i retrieved over 600 pics'! Don't worry i won't post them all....well! not at once! Just taking my saddle tank (Roundhouse Katie) to bits at the mo' on the dining table and i'm toning down the weathering a bit whilst i'm fixing the regulator. Heres some pics' i just found from a few years back during its construction, and some recently seen ones.

Its different for Girls. Joe Jackson.

A couple of years ago the first diesel shunter i built ..named 'The Blue Meany' got sold on and here's the pics' of it being taken out of the shed and into storage in the coal yard before transfer to a new home in the Midlands.

A few recently retrieved pics' from sometime in the last 12 years of my garden line in one form or another. The corner that i'm now having all the subsidence trouble with!

Song For Guy. Dame Elton.

Bristol TM 24th April 1982. Wonder if you were one of these kids messing about? I remember they got a right 'rollocking' from a station staff member for messing about with the luggage carts...

far too big

Number 9 Dream. John Lennon.

Silver Dream Machine. David Essex.

O.R. i'll patch up the slippage once again but if it ever gets any more serious, then it's the last time and i'll be giving up on it! Quite warm and pleasant in the Sun yesterday Aft' so i got stuck in....i had to go a lot deeper and demolish all the wall where the Chapel was on the corner, it had cracked all the mortar lines and most of the blocks were loose! As you can see i've quite a pile of left-over rubble. I've done away with two sets of points and the sidings. The points are on flee-bay now. I'll have a mad hour on it today and clear the rubble away. The cement mixing will have to wait a few days by the look of the weather forecast for this week.

Tomorrows Girls. UK Subs.

Mike you are so spot on, and well yes! all those to$$ers do seem to be called Brian or Bill come to think of it. O.R. Please carry on mate and just do your great stuff, i'm sure it'll be well worth waiting for. Monday looks like a horrible day weather wise so i'll stay in and strip down my live steamers and hopefully try to learn and remember how to put them back together . I cleared up the area where the subsidence is and brought the Chapel in for a tidy up and repaint yesterday, the gutters were hanging off it and the paint on the roof had worn right down to the resin again. Between showers today and tomorrow i'll try and get the track lifted and the lump hammer & chisel on the job.

I drove all night. The Big 'O'

Who wants to live forever. Queen.

Forever in Blue Jeans. Neil Diamond.

Thanks! Probably an industrial themed one Shildon, but something also with a landscape that i could run a train of coaches around as well without them looking to out of place, it's still all up in the air, i do have a rough track plan in mind now and i've scribbled it all down, there's plenty of points included in it for play value and to keep my interest going hopefully for more than five minutes!

It's been a while but i finally came across some suitable sized ply off-cuts that i needed to continue with this little project. The ply is 8mm thick and was jigsawed to fit into the two halves of the folding lid/top after having traced around them and then deducting a 10mm ring all around them, two openings have also been cut into the plastic tops where the track will come through and join up. I'll use car seam sealer/adhesive to fit the boards down later today, first a couple of lengths of 2.cm, square batten need to be fixed to the underside of the ply for strength. I've so far collected just one set of points and two flexible lengths of track to work with and at least i can try and work out some kind of track plan with them.