A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[Limpley Stoker]

Seriously though, some urgent shunting needs doing to rescue the Finching Sisters from the verandah of the Toad- they have been trying not to touch the wet paint for over a week and the gin has run out!

[gwrrob]

Very interesting.

 

Did you swing by your backscene at all?

Yes, by rail !

[Mallard60022]

Yes, by rail !

That could become a bit of a fad on here Rob. Taking a 'run' through one's layout location sounds like a good idea to me. I have yet to do that going east since my last trip in 1969 I think it was. Been west through SOSJ several times behind steam though, but that was a few years ago. 

Philth

[Mulgabill]

That could become a bit of a fad on here Rob. Taking a 'run' through one's layout location sounds like a good idea to me. I have yet to do that going east since my last trip in 1969 I think it was. Been west through SOSJ several times behind steam though, but that was a few years ago. 

Philth

Only way I could do that would be to enrol in an old peoples home, and I'm not ready for that!

 

TONY

[gwrrob]

Yes a visit to the West Country and I managed thanks to the obliging wife to visit Swanage , the SDR at Totnes and the Kingswear branch.

 

A few rolling stock shots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

Toad detail on the SDR and they had two.The Newton one at Staverton was having a new stepboard fitted on the day we visited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

Express Dairy milk tank at Totnes in need of some tlc but still rather nice.

 

 

 

 

[Ian Hargrave]

You didn't fall through the toilet floor then..

[gwrrob]

Also at Staverton was my shunters truck on loan from Tigley Junction.  

 

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

You didn't fall through the toilet floor then..

 

The line is very busy as it's now peak season and taking that coach out of service is stretching their capacity.

[St Enodoc]

Express Dairy milk tank at Totnes in need of some tlc but still rather nice.

 

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Like the milk tanks Rob.

[Ian Hargrave]

The line is very busy as it's now peak season and taking that coach out of service is stretching their capacity.

........And of several hundred bladders,no doubt...

[81C]

This was my evening out with SWMBO on the South Devon Railway .

 

 

A. Raver

[gwrrob]

A few of my shots on the SDR and two prairies, 5542 and 5526 were in steam. Delightful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Andrew P]

As you leave Buckfastleigh Station, the Line passes under a Road Bridge, (Totnes Road), just up to the right on top of the embankment is a rather nice Old Style House that my Wife and I were viewing with an eye to purchasing when we had the Sight and Sound Video Library in Buckfastleigh and lived in Fore St. As we were looking down the very long back garden, a NICE Steam Train came in, and Black Sooty smoke covered us, the garden and the washing that was hanging on the Washing Line.

 

My Wife said NO WAY,              pity, I could have quite happily sat in the garden all day, looking over into the cutting.

Edited July 22, 2017 by Andrew P

[gwrrob]

Any clever people know where we were here then ?

 

 

[bgman]

Tiz Bridport if ize not mistaken, lovely spot 

Edited July 22, 2017 by bgman

[Trains&armour]

Bridport westbay station. Was there myself in 2014

[gwrrob]

Tiz Bridport if ize not mistaken, lovely spot 

 

 

Bridport westbay station. Was there myself in 2014

 

Broadchurch.  

[bgman]

Broadchurch.

 

In that case you must be there with Imaginary Friends ! 

[Captain Kernow]

Yes, West Bay.

[Trains&armour]

Bridport westbay station. Was there myself in 2014

But no coach... 

 

[cary hill]

Prisoner 5542 doesn't seem too keen to reveal his secret identity:

 

[bgman]

Prisoner 5542 doesn't seem too keen to reveal his secret identity:

 

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Man in a Bubble

[gwrrob]

 

 

 

Edited July 22, 2017 by gwrrob