Callow Lane - ex-Midland freight-only line in South Gloucestershire

[Captain Kernow]

Been doing some brambles and other undergrowth over the last couple of days:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Re6/6]

Nice brambles there!🐏🐏

[Captain Kernow]

Someone has forgotten to shut the door to the shunters cabin:

 

[MrWolf]

Or does it not shut right anymore because the joints have rotted and one end of the bottom rail scrapes on the floor?

[MrWolf]

On 04/02/2023 at 15:13, Re6/6 said:

Nice brambles there!🐏🐏

 

They certainly are and I'm tempted to have a greenery diversion every time someone makes convincing undergrowth like that.

[Captain Kernow]

10 hours ago, MrWolf said:

Or does it not shut right anymore because the joints have rotted and one end of the bottom rail scrapes on the floor?

Quite possibly, I think the prototype had deteriorated like that. 

[Captain Kernow]

View from the roof of an adjacent factory of a Class 22 shunting:

 

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[Captain Kernow]

Another view of the Class 22 shunting:

 

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[MrWolf]

So much to look at in that photo and mental notes to be made for my own models. The whole scene is really nicely observed from bits of reality.

[figworthy]

9 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

 

 

A work of art mon capitain.

 

Adrian

[Captain Kernow]

Having been 'borrowed' by the shedmaster at Lydney shed for a quick trip into the Forest - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/155788-parkend-marsh-sidings-in-p4/page/17/

 -  5328 was subsequently used to work a train of engineers hoppers conveying ballast from Whitecliff Quarry to Stoke Gifford, from whence she then worked the same train to Callow Lane, where it would be stabled for weekend engineering works:

 

 

Our photographer then captured the loco at rest in the 'GW' yard, prior to returning light engine to her home depot of Swindon:

 

[Captain Kernow]

A reminder of the occasion of a visit of a Coalville 2F to Callow Lane:

 

 

[Compound2632]

47 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

A reminder of the occasion of a visit of a Coalville 2F to Callow Lane:

 

Ah, a proper engine in a proper shade of BR black. None of your mincing pony trucks here!

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[Siberian Snooper]

Any progress on this layout, CK?

 

 

[MrWolf]

On 01/07/2023 at 11:21, Captain Kernow said:

A reminder of the occasion of a visit of a Coalville 2F to Callow Lane:

 

 

 

A bit late to the party, but here she is in 1962:

 

 

 

 

[woodenhead]

@MrWolf Close but no cigar, that's 58148 in Leicestershire (but it looks like the Forest of Dean), it was 58143 that visited Callow Lane.

 

However I do have an image of 58143 in Bourneville which tantalisingly does allow for an imagination to run away, it got down to Barrow Road from where it popped to Callow Lane.

https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/mrb1526.htm

 

I've referenced the link so I hope I can include the image here in the post....

Edited January 29 by woodenhead

[MrWolf]

I put the link in for my photo and it automatically embedded the picture for some reason. In my defense, it was hard to make our if it was 43 or 48 on the phone. 

 

It does look like the Forest of Dean, but it's the site of Glenfield station on the Leicester & Swannington Railway. The train is actually running on the old passing loop, the platform is in the bushes to the right. Ahead of the train bottom left was the very short coal siding.

 

This is the station before it closed in 1928.

 

https://images.app.goo.gl/6upsG4xuCgwfXD5S8

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, Siberian Snooper said:

Any progress on this layout, CK?

Well, the scenics on one of the two boards is largely complete, but the other board is awaiting it's turn, so to speak, as much of my modelling time for the next few months is promised to helping friends with their layout (which is rather large...)

 

I can also only put one board up at a time in my railway room and at the moment, that space is occupied by Bethesda Sidings, which is due to appear at one or two shows later this year.