Whinburgh and Slitrigg - Main line across the border

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A few coach upgrades from 2020 using Comet sides

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The Brassmasters upgrade for a Bachmann Crab. 

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Bachmann not Lima

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Spent 15 minutes playing trains today - found a few dry joints on the Up Main but I’m not up to repairing things at the moment- a bit under the weather waiting for results of a colon biopsy. Tested the A2/3 now fitted with Fox nameplates and it still works :)

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A few more pictures from the archives

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I now find myself in the Bath RUH facing a major abdominal operation in the next few days or weeks- with COVID in the mix too!   The dust will have to gather on the railway for the next few months I think. 
 

i will race my return to fitness against delivery to our home of the Hornby 2MT 78047 !

Edited July 16, 2023 by coronach

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59 minutes ago, coronach said:

I now find myself in the Bath RUH facing a major abdominal operation in the next few days or weeks- with COVID in the mix too!   The dust will have to gather on the railway for the next few months I think. 
 

i will race my return to fitness against delivery to our home of the Hornby 2MT 78047 !

Very sorry to hear that Coronach; best wishes and I hope you have a swift and full recovery.

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3 minutes ago, 31A said:

Very sorry to hear that Coronach; best wishes and I hope you have a swift and full recovery.

Thank you. The original plan was to come to Bath but to see LarkRail not A&E !

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Crumbs. Goes without saying fingers crossed and all the best.

 

Guess who got a run out today? OK, it was the Waverley and Thames-Clyde Express for now; one day it will be the railway to Riccarton 🤗

 

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G'Day Folks

 

Get well soon, I always enjoy your updates. All the best.

 

manna

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I’ve been back at home for a couple of weeks and need to recover from COVID before I can proceed with the scans, tests and operation. Not working has given me the mental space to enjoy planning work on my loft layout - although it will a while before I can get up there. In the meantime, I have purchased a G5 from TMC.  67261 is auto-fitted and was one of the last two in service in the North East. These locos worked the Rothbury branch and could well have reached Riccarton Junction from Reedsmouth. I look forward to running it in. 

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I’ve also ordered a TMC limited edition Heljan model of Sulzer type 4 D11, one of only four examples that were built with front end connecting doors and split head code boxes. It will be allocated to the down Waverley. 

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Browsing through my photos, looking for something to post, I was reminded of the ‘2D’ activities I enjoy relating to model trains. I inherited a collection of clockwork, tinplate trains from my father and dozens of clockwork mechanisms. I was put in contact with a gentleman with a garden railway who was happy to ‘look after’ the mechanisms but I am keeping the trains, which have huge sentimental value. They also provide an excellent subject for pencil drawing. 
 

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On 03/08/2023 at 11:37, coronach said:

I’ve also ordered a TMC limited edition Heljan model of Sulzer type 4 D11, one of only four examples that were built with front end connecting doors and split head code boxes. It will be allocated to the down Waverley. 

I always assumed that all split boxes had doors, I was quite surprised to find most of them didn’t. Of course they were all sealed beam by my period.