well filled baps The Sheep Chronicles : These are the adventures of a Sheep, the Works Forecat and Naughty George,

[woodenhead]

3 hours ago, Northroader said:

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I thought for a moment you were suggesting Shearing should have overhead cantenary.  That would be a departure from the norm on this thread.

[PaulRhB]

I’m waiting for you to find my old Signalbox. 
 

Copyright Michael Day on Flickr

( looked so nice before they added the extension  ) 

 

[Mallard60022]

20 hours ago, Alister_G said:

 

Ooh, that's clever.

 

Al.

Close to The Needles

[Mallard60022]

14 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Ahem..............

 

 

We have a name for the proposed Isle of Wightesque dalliance.........

 

 

I give ewe............

 

 

Shearing. 

 

 

A bijou line terminus. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He went to play for Southampton once he learned to swim.

[Mallard60022]

2 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

One way ticket?

That would be the Terminus at Slaughter.

[Mallard60022]

Shanklin is actually a place in the IOW and contains part of a Lamb/Sheep......just saying for a Turkish friend of mine, Don Kebab, who suggests Shanklin Fields. He is naughty though so maybe ignore him.

Edited June 4, 2021 by Mallard60022

[Mallard60022]

15 minutes ago, PaulRhB said:

I’m waiting for you to find my old Signalbox. 
 

Copyright Michael Day on Flickr

( looked so nice before they added the extension  ) 

 

Is that the one in Somerset/Dorset or Cardiganshire?

[PaulRhB]

41 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

Is that the one in Somerset/Dorset or Cardiganshire?

Dorset  

 

I’d love to have said you were on the button with Cardiganshire though . . .

Edited June 4, 2021 by PaulRhB

[Nick C]

Have we had Fleecewater yet?

 

Or how about Shearwell (from Shorwell). Or Tupping (though that sounds more Sussex)

 

I've also just found out that there is such a thing as a 'guard Llama'. Who needs a guard dog when you can have a guard Llama to look after your sheep!

[Alister_G]

33 minutes ago, Nick C said:

Who needs a guard dog when you can have a guard Llama to look after your sheep!

 

 

Al.

[ManofKent]

This thread has descended into shear madness. 

[Captain Kernow]

4 hours ago, Nick C said:

Who needs a guard dog when you can have a guard Llama to look after your sheep!

Quite correct. Apparently alpacas are very diligent at seeing off intruders that might affect the flock.

 

[Gilbert]

6 minutes ago, ManofKent said:

This thread has descended into shear madness. 

Baaarking....

[Captain Kernow]

7 minutes ago, ManofKent said:

This thread has descended into shear madness. 

Happily, I have recently found a decent veggy sausage.

 

[Gilbert]

21 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Happily, I have recently found a decent veggy sausage.

 

Oxymoron alert....

[NHY 581]

4 hours ago, Alister_G said:

 

 

Al.

 

Thats a damn fine name for an Alpaca. 

[NHY 581]

5 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

Dorset  

 

I’d love to have said you were on the button with Cardiganshire though . . .

 

Football buttons to be precise. 

[Gilbert]

20 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Football buttons to be precise. 

Jumpers for goalposts....sorry...

[ManofKent]

1 hour ago, Captain Kernow said:

Happily, I have recently found a decent veggy sausage.

 

I find the Cauldron Foods Lincolnshire sausages pretty decent, but I wouldn't want to ram my opinions on ewe.

[NHY 581]

Evening all,

 

This will be the station building for Shearing.

 

 

I have picked up this bit.......

 

 

Need to get one of these. 

 

 

I think it will look the part, especially after the usual. 

 

Rob. 

[MrWolf]

A long way from the Isle of Wight, but I was there the other weekend and your new station building reminds me so much of this place, a lot of which is still standing. There were a lot of sheep about too. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horderley, Bishop's Castle Railway. Back in 1935, they put the ram into ramshackle. Or rather, at Eaton, two stations up, the stationmaster's goats ate all the posters off the boards. Partial to the glue apparently.

 

I suspect that your static flock applicator would have a hernia...

 

 

 

Edited June 4, 2021 by MrWolf
Not quite daft enough

[Ramblin Rich]

3 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Horderley, Bishop's Castle Railway. Back in 1935, they put the ram into ramshackle. Or rather, at Eaton, two stations up, the stationmaster's goats ate all the posters off the boards. Partial to the glue apparently.

Herdingly?

[SteveyDee68]

Sorry to ask a daft question (or two) Rob, but are your two Terriers the most recent issue from Hornby? Also, when refering to "pedigree" Terriers, are folks refering to the Rails version?

 

On a totally different topic, the recent flurry of sheep-related names suggested for your layout have reminded me of an anecdote told me by my late father, in particular the suggestion of "Tupton"...

 

So, once you have completed your Isle of Wight micro, might I request you head northwards to the 'grim' NW territories, hunting ground of the frugal Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and work your micro magic on, perhaps, a paper mill or bleach works? As a native of Bury, I am on the doorstep of the East Lancs Railway and one station on the line has a perfect - and for the first time in your portfolio of ovine-named layouts, prototypical - sheep-related name for you to use 'straight out of the tin', so to speak...

 

I refer, of course, to Ramsbottom

 

Or, as my father told me the guard used to call out as the train pulled into said station, "Tupsarse"!

 

I thank ewe!

 

Steve S

[Dunsignalling]

4 hours ago, MrWolf said:

A long way from the Isle of Wight, but I was there the other weekend and your new station building reminds me so much of this place, a lot of which is still standing. There were a lot of sheep about too. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horderley, Bishop's Castle Railway. Back in 1935, they put the ram into ramshackle. Or rather, at Eaton, two stations up, the stationmaster's goats ate all the posters off the boards. Partial to the glue apparently.

 

I suspect that your static flock applicator would have a hernia...

 

 

 

Looks more like Dis-horderley.

 

John

[LBSC123]

Looking forward to seeing this progress. Keep up the good work, Rob.