Hythe Parkway - Last one of the year (we think!)

Entry posted by St. Simon March 7, 2010

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Hi Guys,

Right, the last exhibition of this year (unless we get the Reading invite for september), Churhrail, has just passed.

It was yet another good day, with more almost perfect running. To be honest I thought it might be a disaster because we have such good luck over the past 2 exhibtions! There were some minor troubles, the track aglinment on the cassettes wasn't good again (after I had got it perfect for Ris-ex! ). We found that none of our stock could exit platform 3 without derailing, despite being able to enter it! . So we set it up with the tamper and some ballast wagons to look like engineering works!

All the stock ran well again, the class 395 can go back to it's home now! Mark brought along his detailed Chiltern Railways Class 121 Bubble Car, so that worked 'on hire to Southwest Trains' as route learning duties! Nearer the end day Wollaston Blue test ran his recently brought Blue & Grey 4-CEP, so that joined my green 4-CEP on the layout for a few minutes.

A good day was had by all, up until about 4:30 when I began to demolish the hall with my head! You see, there was a white board positioned on the wall behind us, that protruded a couple of inches off the wall. I was packing stock away when I dropped some packing foam, I stood up (with the same accleration rate of a small car!) and smashed my head againest the white board . The whole hall went silent and I resisted the urge to shout a swear word! I was a bit shaken but I'm alright!

Here a few pictures from the day:

A view looking along the layout:

Cotswold rail Class 08 No. 08847 brings some Ballast Wagons into Platform 3:

Battle of Britain 4-6-2 No. 34062 '17 Squardron' waits for it's next Duty:

Chiltern Railways Class 121 Bubble Car (owned by Mark Miller), on hire to Southweast Trains, waits in platform 1 on route learning duties:

Southeastern Class 466 No. 466023 waits at Platform 4 with a service to London Bridge:

Another View along the layout:

Southern's other Hertiage 4-CEP in Blue & Grey (Owned by Wollaston Blue) waits in Platfrom 2 with a service to London Victoria, standing in for a failed Elecrostar: