RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted June 14, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 14, 2023 A quiet day at the sidings. 23 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted June 14, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Re6/6 said: A quiet day at the sidings. Very much looking forward to seeing this on the 24th, John. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted June 20, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2023 (edited) Further scenic work done prior to it being on show at the AGM on Saturday. Edited June 20, 2023 by Re6/6 23 8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Killybegs Posted June 20, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2023 We were walking along the trackbed the other day on our way from the Fountains Inn (too busy) to the Woodmans Inn for a spot of lunch before a trip on the FDR. Our train crew are seen relaxing at Norchard. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted June 20, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, Killybegs said: We were walking along the trackbed the other day on our way from the Fountains Inn (too busy) to the Woodmans Inn for a spot of lunch before a trip on the FDR. Our train crew are seen relaxing at Norchard. That must be a Dapol Prairie with the shiny plasticky safety valve cover that no one thinks is realistic! Are they Modelu figures? Great lighting there, you should submit that to the realistic modelling thread. 🙂 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted July 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 29, 2023 Class 14s worked most of the Forest services from early January 1966 until the middle of 1967: 26 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted July 30, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2023 (edited) Thanks to CK for his work on the Cl 14, making repairs and 'beautifying' it with improved dirtiness. A 'realms of fantasy' picture when there were two engines present on the branch. Steam and diesel power never appeared together nor would there actually ever been two locos on the sidings at the same time, but hey......! Edited July 30, 2023 by Re6/6 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted July 30, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2023 4672 quietly waiting in the headshunt. 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 30 minutes ago, Re6/6 said: Thanks to CK for his work on the Cl 14, making repairs and 'beautifying' it with improved dirtiness. A 'realms of fantasy' picture when there were two engines present on the branch. Steam and diesel power never appeared together in one nor would there actually ever been two locos on the sidings at the same time, but hey......! I still get pangs of regret over the lost world that was the real Marsh Wharf. Parkend in the mid-1970s was still a very special industrial landscape. Heritage transformation of a location gives, but it also takes much away? That time-honed patina of the past. Like washing off the weathering? 4 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2023 (edited) Harking back to another fantasy sequence - the keeping open of Parkend Royal Colliery and the equally unlikely excursion of an improbably NCB loco to Marsh Sidings... Edited July 30, 2023 by Captain Kernow 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2023 Just a few wagons parked in Marsh Sidings: 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted July 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2023 The era is revealed as the early 1970s, with a Class 25 working some coal wagons into the yard for loading with Free Miners coal: 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted July 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2023 Possibly visiting the yard on a clearance test just prior to the end of steam in the Forest, a Hymek sits in the Sawmills Siding, waiting it's return to Bath Road: 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 19 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: Just a few wagons parked in Marsh Sidings: Me, circa 1975, aged 11, climbing on unattended hopper wagons at Marsh Wharf. No one said anything. No accidents were suffered. Happy autumn days long ago (!). 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 1 minute ago, Captain Kernow said: Possibly visiting the yard on a clearance test just prior to the end of steam in the Forest, a Hymek sits in the Sawmills Siding, waiting it's return to Bath Road: Sawmills Sidings housed preserved Dean Forest Railway stock for a number of years. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 9 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: I still get pangs of regret over the lost world that was the real Marsh Wharf. Parkend in the mid-1970s was still a very special industrial landscape. Heritage transformation of a location gives, but it also takes much away? That time-honed patina of the past. Like washing off the weathering? It wasn't the DFR's 'fault though, was it, that the wharf was demolished? That decision was taken elsewhere, based on 'Elf'n'safftyness' recomendations, lest anyone should fall off it, despite the evidence as related in one of the books on the subject, that no-one ever had in it's approx. 200 years working life.... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 7 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said: It wasn't the DFR's 'fault though, was it, that the wharf was demolished? That decision was taken elsewhere, based on 'Elf'n'safftyness' recomendations, lest anyone should fall off it, despite the evidence as related in one of the books on the subject, that no-one ever had in it's approx. 200 years working life.... The Forestry Commission in the FoD swept away a lot of Wye-Dean industrial archaeology in the name of H&S? Marsh Wharf may have been lost in this same brutal cull? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted July 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2023 On 30/07/2023 at 09:20, Re6/6 said: A 'realms of fantasy' picture when there were two engines present on the branch. Steam and diesel power never appeared together nor would there actually ever been two locos on the sidings at the same time, but hey......! "Rule No.1" Applies 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2023 3737 is clearly ex-works as she starts a train of coal wagons away from the 'Coal Road': 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted July 31, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2023 13 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: It wasn't the DFR's 'fault though, was it, that the wharf was demolished? That decision was taken elsewhere, based on 'Elf'n'safftyness' recomendations, lest anyone should fall off it, despite the evidence as related in one of the books on the subject, that no-one ever had in it's approx. 200 years working life.... The cutting for the headshunt is still there, just. Headshunt cutting 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Re6/6 Posted July 31, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2023 No traffic today in the sidings 'Marsh Sidings' will be on show at Scalefour Southwest at Wells on 12th and 13th of August and at Scaleforum on 23rd and 24th of September. 21 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 6 hours ago, Re6/6 said: No traffic today in the sidings 'Marsh Sidings' will be on show at Scalefour Southwest at Wells on 12th and 13th of August and at Scaleforum on 23rd and 24th of September. Sawmills Siding: what was the height from the top of the running rail to the lip of the loading bank? Did this height remain constant for the length of the siding - or did the siding feature a climbing gradient? I have cloudy memories of being able to step from the 'platform' into the cab of a partially sheeted DFR prairie tank and an auto coach (?) stored in this siding in the mid-1970s? Do you feature the DFR stock storage era on your layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 31, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 31, 2023 48 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: Sawmills Siding: what was the height from the top of the running rail to the lip of the loading bank? Did this height remain constant for the length of the siding - or did the siding feature a climbing gradient? I have cloudy memories of being able to step from the 'platform' into the cab of a partially sheeted DFR prairie tank and an auto coach (?) stored in this siding in the mid-1970s? Do you feature the DFR stock storage era on your layout? Well, it's John's layout, he did most of the research, so I'll let him answer this one. Funnily enough, we were talking about representing DFR rolling stock just yesterday, as the latest operating period of the layout will (just) cover the period that the DFR started getting established at Parkend station. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 On 30/07/2023 at 09:20, Re6/6 said: Thanks to CK for his work on the Cl 14, making repairs and 'beautifying' it with improved dirtiness. A 'realms of fantasy' picture when there were two engines present on the branch. Steam and diesel power never appeared together nor would there actually ever been two locos on the sidings at the same time, but hey......! Surely the pannier is there to rescue the train didn’t the class 14 have quite a few mechanical problems. Keith 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip-griffiths Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 I have a picture of myself in a Wickham trolley at Parkend at an open day. I also remember seeing the remains of the sidings as a kid when we explored putting the caravan on Whitemead caravan park. amazing what was cleared away in the 80s. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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