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Thought i would share these as well It's actually quite an arnate building when you look at the detail. The main station building. Detail of the window surrond Chimneys Door frame detail. And the Canopy supports. Then we have the old entrance to the good yard wich was reached by a trailing point off the down main line. And one other thing, The up line platform is faced with Southern style concrete edging (as supplied by Peco), but the down main line is brick faced, well looks like breeze block to me.It's along it's whole length as well so not just an addition. any suggestion as to why this might be. Presumably re-built at some stage or was it original ?????? Thats all folks, Colin

Hi all. I had a trip out over the weekwnd to see if i could trace any of the old line from Parstone station to Salterns Marina. This i believe is whats left. There was some old ballast stone knocking about so am thinking this was it, now a footpath for some of the way allthough the first part is over grown. Looking towards Parkstone. Looking just south of the pottery where Baden Powell school is now situated And looking south just before Saterns Marina Thats all i could find that was left. Colin

Hi All.I bought a new camera so just thought i would have a little play Tis is a view down the goods shed line. I am in the process of painting some people, well workman should i say And then just a few odd ones

Hi all. Well we finally got it finished almost and it runs. As it's my first ever kit i am chuffed to bits. So on to the next one now It was a huge learning curve for me but with some help from a couple of good mates, we got there. A BIG thankyou to Steve and Nigel. Oh and also this. Built by Nigel, Painted, lettered and weathered by me

Hi all. It's been a while hasn't it. With a move of house, we have finally got their. Thanks to Nigel and Steve for helping me move Pine Road, With a slight detour via the Dorset 3mm club day for a play so that everyone could actually see it Well, Pine Road has moved. It has its own room now so i consider my self very lucky. Just a few snaps taken off the Mobile. Colin

Hi all. It's been a while but another little addition for the cement works when i start to build it

I couldn't have put it better myself, I have fond memories. Colin

Hi all. I had 3 more "VEE Tanks" arrive this morning, as luck would have it the numbers follow on from the ones i allready had "bonus". I also have the door sprue's from the VEA wagons (credit to southernman46 for letting me know about this) to build the PVV vans. Thanks must be said to a very helpfull guy at Parkside Dundas. Still Battling with Templot Colin

Hi all. Not a lot to report at the moment. The track has been ordered. I have spent the last two afternoons trying to get my head around Templot yeah ok. Colin

They look the part. Did you use glue or did you solder yours together. Colin

I really don't want to Bob. Some of these have never been out in the last couple of years. I took the Class 31 out just to make sure it wasn't cracked on the cab corners and then put it away again. Colin

Thats a very good point you make there, i hadn't noticed that. On the real thing that was where the Goods shed was and quite a large one it was too. That must have been a lot of planning when it came to shunting the yard. Colin

As i think i have said some where i have been collecting up various items "Blue Circle" related and this is the state of play so far. The Trackside Foden will probably be weathered to a pritty bad state and tucked up in the corner of the yard some where. I aquired three more "Vee tanks" over the weekend. The yellow presflo's will be repainted Grey/Brown. After some research over the weekend, I learnt alot about the line. There was a good article about the mineral siding in the Dorset Life magazine some time ago. Also some amazing Photographs, Credit to Alwyn Ladell i believe. I also have on order a Scammell Routeman from Langley Models, bit of a hienz 57 this as the cab, chassis and body are from different parts of thier kits. Colin

Well Southernman46, This is very helpfull indeed, thankyou very much. I will have a go at these at some point. Colin.

Hi tender. The brake van has a Dapol chassis. I bought the kit off a friend and think its the chassis that came with the kit. The Adams Radial: i think the kit has been out fo some time, Its still listed on there web site. http://www.pdkmodels.co.uk/PL%203.htm Colin

I would certainly consider some of these but can't seem to find any rtr or kit form unless someone kows different. Colin

I should mention that the Adams Radial is the first brass loco kit i have ever built, talk about jump in at the deep end. I am pleased with the way it has turned out but i do keep putting off linning it, just buffers, transferes, couplings to complete. Colin Ps did the Brake van actually ever have SR on the ide at some point. I have been looking through pictures and can't find on wth it on

Hi al. Two new aditions for Pine Road. The Adams Radial is a PDK kit and the Brake road van is from Smallbrook Studio. Colin

I will look out for that i wonder if there is one called "The cement Railways of Dorset". This idea is "curing" nicely. i thnk we have "cemented" together a good idea for a layout allthough it hasn't turned "green" yet. Im just powdering sorry pondering on the idea. Its becoming a hardened plan........ Colin

Ok, am i allowed 2 chunks of modellers licence? Lets say the pottery lasted in to the early 70s (Poole Pottery is stil going). With all the development in Poole town center the sidings in Poole and the land was sold off for this, Blue circle moved there oporations to Parktone (although it would probably have been moved to Hamworthy goods.) Parkstone would have been a very busy place or is all this to far fetched. I have built this silo just want a layout to put it on. The plan is Parkstone sidings the bottom most siding was the down main line. You thoughts please Colin

Hi Ian. Yes you are pobably right my mistake for calling it a private line. It was reffered to on the original plan as a mineral line. There's a bit about the line in a book called Rails to Poole Harbour by Colin Stone. The line use to supply a pottery. Originally it went to Saltens marina but no recorded use after about 1922.The tacks were lifted back as far as the pottey by about 1933 The line was taken out of use in 1963, the pottery closed 2 years later. The sidings closed in 1965 but the tracks remained until the early 70s. Colin

Hi all. Well there's some good comments coming throgh on this one We are still at the mixing stage at the moment but hey yes, those APCM wagons are a definite possibility as it would seem they were taken out of traffic in early 80s, so fits the bill, time scale. Colin

HI hornbyandbf3fan Yes, i already have one, but thanks for the tip Colin

Hi all. As Pine Road is nearing completion i have been looking around for another project. (Don't panic Pine Road will not be broken up) As i have lived in Poole all my life i have fond memories of Poole station especially the old cement silo that was there. After seeing the excellent model of a blue circle cement silo that Bagpipes331 built in 7mm scale it speared me on to have a go at one in 4mm scale. All credit to bagpipes331 for this. This is what i came up with. I have been collecting up a lot of Blue Circle related items over the last year or so, including Presflo's, Vee tank wagons various road trucks etc. So what to build. no where near enough room to build Poole. A private siding ? didn't want the full blown cement works has to be set in the blue era, i have built up a nice collection of blue diesel. Are you still with me on this hello HELLO. ok i shall carry on rambling and thinking out loud. Things got left, just couldn't come up with an idea how to go about this or a track plan, UNTIL last saturday. Nigel (of the Dorset 3mm society held on the first Saturday of the Month, Quick Plug) bought in a copy of Railway Modeller February 2001 and there it was staring me in the face Yipee Thats it i have an idea, something pinged inside me and now "i just cant get it out of my head" Quote Kyle. Parkstone. Ok huge amounts of modellers licence here (please don't turn off) So lets look at this. Am i allowed to post the track plan that was in the magazine, if so let me know ? Well this is what i came up with (second phase of inspiration) a track plan. Take the main line and platforms out and this is what you are left with. Just a rough sketch but hey there is potential I could take this opportunity to appologise that my drawing is not much better than my spelling, Grammer etc. I have not thought about size yet but would have to be around 8 to 10 feet and 20 inches wide purely because that is the width of fiddle yard used on Pine Road (use same fiddle yard) hence it will take 8 Presflo's and an engine easily. Any thoughts, comments, gripes, shouts, yelps on all this are gratfully received. will this actually ever get built, well who knows it has been an idea for some time now. Little things happen and i suddenly have burst of inspiration. Colin

Tothill services have lots of coffee stirers or it did before I went in there colin