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'Big T' delivered to the Glentanar Hotel

... Grace Jones using a bit of innuendo! Surely not!!

"Pull up to the bumper baby"

Thanks - there is something brewing in those clouds!

More recent photos illustrate the changes

Before-and-after I recently found a photo of 'distillery corner' in 2020, with just basic groundwork and track. It's a surprising transformation!

The sunshine coast!

"Sunset mistaken for a dawn" A long view of the quayside on the harbour at Braeside ..

I imagine they come with a fascinating booklet, about Sir Norbert Grisley, The famous race to KingNarber Junction and other poorly researched facts about the oldy Victoriana steam world.

One too many My trips to see Dad and contribute to the layout are mostly made by train. This limits the amount of stuff I can bring. I weathered the locomotive time but the box was just a bit too big for my rucksack! It'll be good to add it to the growing fleet of 'BR Blue' but on another trip.

The quayside remains a good location for photography ..

Looking far more at home on our steam-era shed is 60532 'Blue Peter' Allocated to Aberdeen Ferryhill in 1951, she moved to Dundee in 1961 for her remaining years in mainline traffic.

I sense an awkward conversation stage left. The steam-era crews are resisting any requests to ditch their shovels in favour of a power handle.

Here are images taken around the engine shed that feature BR Blue locomotives, including a pre-production sample of the marvellous SLW rendition of a boiler-fitted 25/3 I was allowed to weather the loco to aid the realism of photography.