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Ant! Another really good bloke that's gone far too soon. RIP. Chris.

Worksop WRD was open up until a few years ago, when at the christmas closure the roller doors were dropped and welded to the rails. I believe it was one of the main depots for MGR wagons, but repairs were carried out on other wagons as required. This was latterly also the Worksop signing on point for EWS Drivers. With regards to the Crescent Wagon Works, this was described and modelled as a diorama by Chris Leigh (if I recall correctly) in one of the first issues of Model Rail as a magazine in it's own right. After spending many years OOU in his garage it was put up for charity auction, the successful purchaser being David Palmer, who carefully renovated and made the diorama into a working layout including making the traverser fully operational, The layout enjoyed travelling to a number of shows up and down the UK including Warley and Spalding as examples. This I know from personal experience as I used to help and generally made a mess of helping to operate the layout. Today it is now in the ownership of James Cullen, who I believe is renovating the layout and will possibly be exhibiting it at exhibitions in the future. Hope this was of interest. XW