The Hintock Branch-1930's Dorset Joint GWR/SR Workings in OO

[mullie]

John

 

The coaches are lovely models and that photo is an amazing piece of social history. Do you know or remember if that set was articulated like the set used in later years?

 

Happy Christmas

 

Martyn

[john flann]

Martyn, given your interest in local social history you are more than welcome (subject to acknowledgement) to make use of it.

 

As far as my re-collections go none of the sets were articulated. It's the kind of thing a small boy would note.

 

And a Happy Christmas to you-here it's well and truly white!

[mullie]

John

 

I should have done some research before making the earlier post. According to the Jackson book the gate stock as you have it is representative of the stock on the Portland branch until around 1941, at least some of which was rebuilt from rail motor stock and therefore correct for your period. The sets I was referring to were brought in around 1950 having worked the last trains on the Isle of Sheppey branch and worked during the final years of passenger services onto Portland. 

 

Martyn

[john flann]

Martyn, I have been remiss in not responding earlier but my contact with the Portland Branch and its doings largely ceased in 1949 when I did my National Service in Hong Kong and on return in 1951 worked and lived in Lancashire.

 

Thus the latter period of its existence I was largely unaware. The last time I saw it was in the 80's when all that existed were its remains. All rather sad.

 

So I knew nothing of the Isle of Sheppy stock. And, I must say from Jackson's photos it does look out of place.

 

But, I do now have the Hintock Branch and its gate stock as a remembrance.

[LNWR18901910]

What a nice and interesting layout. Any S15s about?

[john flann]

 

I've been endeavouring to attach this on Edit but with no success. So here it is.

 

I hope soon to have been educated by my grand daughter Holly on how to photoshop; and images such as this will have been improved.

 

PS, on Edit I see now I (not "I " but "it") did get attached.

[john flann]

Hello????,LNWR.... thanks for your interest and the post. I'm glad you visited, liked what you saw and I hope you will visit again. Thanks too to members who have liked also.

 

As to S15's you won't find any on my Hintock Branch, as attractive as they are, and the closest they would reach is either Dorchester or Chard Junction. (There is a map somewhere back a few pages, or there's one with my article in the RM, January 2018.)

 

Regards,

[john dew]

Happy New Year John

 

I look forward to enjoying more of your tales of Dorset country folk in the coming year

 

Best wishes

 

John

[john flann]

Hello John,

 

Thanks for those warm Greetings and that I heartily reciprocate to my nearest modelling neighbour-some 1,000 miles westward of here.

 

Your remark is timely, for it brought to mind the Annual Meeting of the Hintock Redux Local History Society held some time ago where after a pleasant lunch at the Hintock Arms and business completed, they took a special train to Port Bredy. There they took in a breath of sea air, a look at the Roman remains of the fort and harbour, then a cream tea and more than sated with food and brisk West Bay breezes, slumbered (I'm sure) back to Hintock.

 

 

Getting ready to go.

 

 

 

Stopping at Hintock Town Quay to view what was once a thriving place, but now with the silted up River Brede but a shadow of its prior business and bustle.

 

 

 

And, enjoying the passing scene .

 

[bike2steam]

Love it, keep up the good work - happy New Year from Dorset.   ps - Forget the S15 they were only main-line locos - before preservation.

[john flann]

[Podhunter]

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What's the green milk tank labelled DDFA?

[john flann]

Thank you gentlemen for your interest and Podhunter for your inquiry; it's put together from a Bachmann tank,a Dapol chassis, painted and lettered for the Dorset Dairy Farmers Association..

[BWsTrains]

Hello John,

 

Thanks for those warm Greetings and that I heartily reciprocate to my nearest modelling neighbour-some 1,000 miles westward of here.

 

Your remark is timely, for it brought to mind the Annual Meeting of the Hintock Redux Local History Society held some time ago where after a pleasant lunch at the Hintock Arms and business completed, they took a special train to Port Bredy. There they took in a breath of sea air, a look at the Roman remains of the fort and harbour, then a cream tea and more than sated with food and brisk West Bay breezes, slumbered (I'm sure) back to Hintock.

 

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Getting ready to go.

 

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Stopping at Hintock Town Quay to view what was once a thriving place, but now with the silted up River Brede but a shadow of its prior business and bustle.

 

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And, enjoying the passing scene .

Hi John,

 

lovely photos. Now I thought I knew all the nooks and crannies of your 3 components HR, HTQ and PB but I cannot for the life of me "place" those last two photos!

From your sequence, presumably it must be between HTQ and PB but I can't find this bend over a stream anywhere in your plans. A photo set further back might help me visualise the setting.

 

Regards,

 

Colin

[Ashley Bridge]

Love your sneaky trestle shot, John. Good luck remembering how far back that scene was used last!

 

May I wish all your regular followers a healthy new year.

 

Rich.

[john flann]

Colin, to be fair this was one nook and cranny that you were unaware of as the following will reveal

 

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This original scene was of part of my American HO layout Providence River (2000) I built out of Clark Fork (1991 and since become part of Mesquite (2016).

 

It seemed ideal to use for the shots here shown and with a little bit of window dressing I turned it into this, below.

 

 

And, where it served its purpose well.

 

 

This brings the story of the outing of the Hintock Redux Local History Society to a close with the 14XX leaving with the autocoach and several member ladies finishing (?) their chat on the platform while it returns ECS to Weymouth and its customary duties on the Abbotsbury branch..

[john flann]

Rich, thank you for those Good Wishes and your interest. And, of course,to all the other members who have expressed interest in these current endeavours.

 

You have a long memory! MRP 2009, p 69, "Planning a 1980's branch line".

 

My regards,

[john flann]

 

Please see this with a red faced apology, as a substitute for the last image above.

[john flann]

 

Straight out of Hatton's pre-owned box.

 

All it lacks are discs, coal, crew and weathering. That will soon be dealt with.

 

Beautiful runner. I'm well pleased.

[john flann]

As ever gentlemen I am appreciative of your interest and in my  last few postings and next are some working images of Hintock Redux and where it is proving a useful tool in determining in how I'm doing.

 

 

Very pleasing until I realized...

 

 

... but never mind.

 

 

 

 

Overall reasonable especially the new (not exactly) new building at the RH end of Crown Prince brewery, but something jars.

 

 

 

Again not too bad, except for the combination of Signal Box and Water Tank next each other.There the tank has come out and gone to a better home on Port Bredy and the box will sit in isolation.

 

More images of this in due course.

 

On Edit. PS.  I see once again i have some bonus shots. I won't attempt to rid myself of them. 

[sjrixon]

Great shots as ever. I love the Pannier with a very eclectic collection behind it, I'm not even sure what that first full brake is? And I've also no idea what you realised? 

[bike2steam]

Great shots as ever. I love the Pannier with a very eclectic collection behind it, I'm not even sure what that first full brake is? And I've also no idea what you realised? 

 

Replace the full brake for a brake second, then you've got a mixed train, sort of Hemyock - ish.  

[john flann]

 

Scott glad you liked the images, yes it is an interesting train behind the Pannier and I'll say more about it when I respond to Paul.

 

What i hadn't realized, above, is that the Home signal guarding the exit to the loop was Off, whereas with the approaching train, below it should have been On.

 

 

As mentioned I also realized I need do something about the Signal Box and Water Tank. That is in hand and will be the subject of further posts.

[john flann]

 

Paul. very near but not quite.

 

The train is the 6.22 pm ex Hintock Junction with empty van(s) and milk tanks for Hintock Dairies.

 

The milk tanks will be changed for full ones and the LMS van loaded across the platform with Vale of Hintock grown fresh cut flowers, fruit and vegetables.

 

Then the train will depart Hintock Redux at 7.44 pm for the Junction with the milk tanks going on attached to a fast freight from Weymouth to Granby via Wolverhampton and the van from Bristol up the Joint LMS/GW line through Shrewsbury and Chester to Birkenhead.

 

The next morning the milk will be in bottles on customers front steps and the flower, fruit and vegetables on sale in green grocers shops in and around Birkenhead and the Wirral.

 

The period is the later 1930's when things were done that way.

[Podhunter]

[John Flann] It brings back happy memories of when I was a small boy and traveling in such stock on the Portland Branch

 

I was an equally small boy about twenty years after your time.  We lived in Wyke Regis, between Weymouth and Portland.  We would walk to the beach at Sandsfoot Castle, passing under the railway.  By the mid-fifties I don't think there was any passenger traffic, but I remember WR panniers with short goods trains.  Our job was to put pennies on the rails, then retrieve the thin disks after a train had passed.