Karhedron Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Gutted to have missed out on this. I was on my way with the boys when the car broke down in Newbury. Ended up having to get towed home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Taz Posted July 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2014 Just got home and would like to add my thanks for a great day out. Really enjoyed it andit was great to be able to poke around behind the scenes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castle Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Hi All, A pleasure showing you all round! Karhedron - you have a PM. All the best, Castle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2014 I must say I had a great day. Many thanks to everyone who made it possible, great tour Castle. I learnt a huge amount. Brian (Taz) picked John (Re6/6) and myself up and did an excellent job with the driving. Lovely day with great company. Regards, Nick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGV Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I would like to add to the gratitude to Mr Castle and his helpers for a fantastic and memorable trip around Didcot on Sunday. Extra special thanks for answering all my questions and for showing us all the excellent work that continues to be done by the Society and its volunteers. I am also really impressed that you manage to build such exquisite models which requires such dexterity and work on the real thing which must need brute strength at times. Thank you again Sir, for an interesting and informative day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Cracking day out, thanks to Castle, the GWS volunteers & TSM for making it so. Very few pictures taken as I was just listening! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Still not sure. Will Pendennis Castle be DCC fitted or ready ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castle Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Hi All, Thanks again and given all the main line kit, No. 4079 will be DCC fitted with sound and smoke generator too... All the best, Castle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2014 Many thanks Drew for all your efforts in showing us the site in detail and for relating some interesting stories. The high point for me was looking into the dark recesses of the carriage shed with all those marvellous examples awaiting restoration and allowing us to sit in some that are normally locked up. I didn't realize that there was a 'Dreadnaught' that had survived, which made my day! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandhurstBaggie Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Drew, Many thanks for a great afternoon tour around 81E. Most enjoyable and highly informative. I didn't realise how much special and historic items you had. Thanks once again and hope to see you again next year, Sandhurst Baggie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom J Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Thank you very much Drew and friends (and indeed fellow attendees) for your kindness and patience with the little chap yesterday. He clearly enjoyed the signal box visit - he took a lot of pictures of levers! A few happy snaps from our day out at Didcot: Am about to have to put an order into a well-known Merseyside retailer to cover off one of Thomas Ivor's highlights: Very many thanks, Drew - maybe others of us with such connections might be able to put together some similar visits in future? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2014 A few snaps.... Iron Duke replica Fire Fly in the trans-shipment shed 'P4' and '00'! One of the few auto trailers with a corridor connection. (used with the steam railmotor) Some superb rebuilding done with this 'Dean' four wheeler, showing the old and the new. One of the 'Barry Ten' that will probably never run again. It is understood that the boiler might be used on a better example. Good to have at least one Barry engine left for posterity to show what they looked like before preservation. A few more to follow later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Dad also wanted to pass on thanks. As a little boy he used to watch out of his bedroom window as the pannier tanks shunted wagons up to the coaling stage, when a little bit bigger he was sent off to the yard with a bottle of pop and a wrap of sandwiches to spend the day on the footplates shunting, and he then spent his whole career as a Civil Engineer on the Western Region. He's had quite a few tours of the GWS, but said this was one of the best and most informative he's had. We were also really impressed to see that the younger generation are into preservation work. What they were doing with the 72XX (?) and the 0-4-0 saddle tank is fantastic. Dad got quite misty eyed about the latter as he remembers them from his childhood holidays in Weymouth - he's looking forward to seeing it run. Could I also say to Tom J what a credit to you the little chap was. For one so young to know so much and have such impeccable manners was fabulous! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 My thanks too for a splendid tour. My Grandson, I think, "Cabbed" every loco in sight. He was particularly taken by the signal box tour and the rebuilding work being done in the coach shed. We left at that point to revisit the museum and sign the appropriate forms for a few items of memorabilia deposited there on behalf of a long retired ex-railway employee. All very official! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom J Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Could I also say to Tom J what a credit to you the little chap was. For one so young to know so much and have such impeccable manners was fabulous! Kind of you to say, Sir! You wouldn't believe that the reason I've not been around on here much lately is because, against my wishes, people are trying to make clinical behavioural interventions with him. Your words matter all the more to us in that context... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendennis Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Hi Drew I'd like to add my thanks to you and all the other volunteers at Didcot who made yesterday's tour so enjoyable. Your knowledge of the many facets of the operation, with your ability to answer most of the questions thrown at you, rounded the tour off perfectly. Keep up the good work Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Boar Fell Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I have now managed to get some of my photos uploaded, still alot left. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wild_boar_fell_railways/sets/72157645571932627/ Thanks again, Wild Boar Fell Edited to actually include said photos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-missy- Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Hello. I would also like to add my thanks to Castle and Co for taking the time once again to spend an afternoon showing fellow forum members around. I really enjoyed myself meeting and talking to other members. I could post some photos of bits and pieces but others have covered that quite well so here are mine of the RMWeb folk instead... Julia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff west Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Hi All I would also like to thank castle for taking time to show us around i had a very enjoyable afternoon and also came away more knowledgable which is always a bonus. Regards Geoff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardL Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Many thanks to castle and his team. Very interesting and informative day. Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Well, that seals it. Next time I'm over, I'm coming along! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 One thing you just missed at Didcot was the County chassis. here is a picture of it waiting for the lorry on the Wednesday afternoon. I think it left on Thursday. Then the tender chassis got loaded on the Warflat that I assume you saw on your visit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 29, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2014 A few more snaps.... Reminiscent of Zobland! I like 'tracks into the undergrowth'! From this....... ...to this It was found with most of it's fittings and upholstery still being lived in. These have now been preserved and re-arranged into this magnificent exhibit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2014 A few for the carriage fans. There are some remarkable specimens in line for restoration. There are also a few assorted views. I do have several close ups of the motion of the King 6023 if anybody is interested that I could put up. An LT flat wagon WPW1000 with the hinge up buffers when buckeye couplings are used. An interesting tale is attached to this wagon. It was shipped over to northern France for the war effort then abandoned before the Dunkirk evacuation, captured by the German forces, used by them and then recaptured after the D-Day landings and re-patriated back home and wound up in the collection. An interesting story! Seen with the boiler from 'Pendennis Castle'. Pendennis Castle with the frames of 1363 (?IIRC) in the foreground. The water tower from Bodmin. Inside one of the five preserved 'Super Saloons' The diesel railcar And for me the 'piece de resistance' the 'Dreadnaught' 3299 that I never knew had been saved. The reason for my pleasure at seeing this is that I have a brass kit of one in the 'bottom drawer' awaiting building! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2014 Thank you very much Drew and friends (and indeed fellow attendees) for your kindness and patience with the little chap yesterday. He clearly enjoyed the signal box visit - he took a lot of pictures of levers! A few happy snaps from our day out at Didcot: Very many thanks, Drew - maybe others of us with such connections might be able to put together some similar visits in future? Would you please thank the young man for his very helpful contribution during the signalbox visit - his questions were just right and it was revealing that when shown a lever cloth he was the only person who identified it as a 'cloth' (and not as a 'duster' - had he been on a course beforehand?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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