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    wenlock

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    Hi Dave,

     

    Absolutely love your updates on Sherton Abbas. The coal mounds look great and really fit into the overall scene and flavour of the period. The coal merchants horse drawn cart that you mentioned will really complete the scene.

    Looking forward to the next update!

     

    Best regards,

     

    Jeremy

    bcnPete

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    Hi Pete,

     

    Looks really good mate and the back scene carries the eye on further as it fits really nicely with the static grass.

    How are you doing the ballast? Will it be the usual technique of wetting with a sprayer and then dribbling on a pva/water/drop of washing liquid mix?

     

    Best regards,

     

    Jeremy

    anroar53

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    Thank you Jeremy,

     

    Just as an aside I saw your question on weed killing trains at Euston. Although it's a bit out of your time slot I used to work at Euston PSB 1973-77 and can remember 6Z07 appearing one night. It came up the DC Line to the station, propelled onto the Backing out Roads, ran round (Top n tail wasn't widespread then), then went direct to Camden and back down the DC Line. The view from the Box windows were a bit impaired by the Parcel Dock canopy, but it was hauled by a 25 and the train, if I remember, was made up of several tank wagons sandwiched between a couple of converted Southern PMVs and a staff accommodation coach, possibly Mark 1. I don't know if it was spraying at the time, I suspect it was only covering the DC Lines from South Hampstead.

    Moving on I do have a few, not too good pictures, of the Weedkilling train around 1989. At this time it was top n tailed by a pair of 20s 20901 and 20904, both in grey with Hunslet-Barclay branding. The pictures of the train were not so good as I only had an ancient 'wind on' camera and missed bits! In this case there were four tank wagons at one end with the converted PMVs and a couple of accommodation vehicles at the other. This train roamed all over the different regions, so it might have turned up at Euston?

     

    Andy.

     

    Hi Andy, many thanks for the info. Maybe I'll do an early 70's style weedkiiler train for interest.

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