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Coronation Street around to Sandy Hill High Level: 47591 having backed off an incoming arrival The Panel at Sandy Hill: Looking back along the cutting at Coronation Street: Cornish 37's in abundance. 37678 in the headshunt of the yard with 37670 & 671 departing with the cement. Sandy Hill High Level station & MPD: 47148 assits a dead 56013 through Sandy Hill The fuel roads: The MPD on a Saturday - note books ready: EWS day with brothers visiting locos

Home at last so here goes. The photos start with the buffers at the terminus and work around. 45104 sits in platform 4 with an arrival The view at the platform ends. 47's rule some more views of the station platform ends. The yard & station throat: 40169 whistles away to itself putside the Dreary Hotel 25279 in the loco siding Moving around to the carriage sidings and Coronation Street the "suburbs" 47537 nears journey end More to follow....

Hi Stuart, many thanks for the reply. Will start an "onslaught" of pictures as soon as I can get back to the hard drive. Hopefully by 23.00 we'll be cooking with gas.

I have been submitting images to the gallery for some time, and had a thread on the old RM Web, and have decided to crank up a new topic for my layout which has been under construction for around 3 years and is 85% complete. It is an end to end layout, from hidden storage yard to 4 platform terminal (Mount Charles). The layout also has a TMD & Freight Yard (Sandy Hill). There is also a branch down to Bishops Bronescombe. I have previously had continuous run layouts (Elm Park loft layout), but found that many services and locos simply visited the layout breifly before disappearing into hidden sidings. There are no short cuts on this layout, and so far I am enjoying the labour internsive nature of shunt releasing the loco hauled trains. The yard is a hub of Speedlink activity as well as bulk services, stone, oil, coal and Steel. The layout is DC controlled and set in the glorious BR blue era 1979 to 1989. This allows NSE and Intercity liveries to appear alongside some second generation DMU's. Regular running evenings encourage pals to bring stock to run, and I must admit enjoy the garish liveries of todays DMU's sitting alongside the 1985 loco and five coach counterparts. I love the era of sheds like Bescot, Saltley & Severn Tunnel Jn bursting with a sea of blue & yellow, especially at weekends, and make no apology for a packed depot at times. The layout has a WR theme, Barnt Green to Penzance, though I do love odd interloper, on Railtours etc.. I hoep you like following the thread, there's still much to do, and clolur light signals have recently bit wired in and lit. You may recognise some shots from my occasional Traction articles, and the former loft layout in Bristol appeared on BBC2's Home programme in 2006. Please feel free to get in touch, I'm delighted to help in any way with people's modelling and pleased to say I've never stopped learning after 35 years modelling, and 20 years as a Signalman / Controller.

Greg from Kernow hoped the weathered ones will be available by mid April. THey will be master-class wagons for sure. They will no doubt start to make earlier wagons in the consist look toys like in comparison though. As for a Lima loco pulling them - hmmm

Amamzing - I said these locos will raise eyebrows clag wise. They look pretty good in action too. Here's 003/006 stabled over the weekend at Stoke Gifford.

The Carriage & wagon boys used to be based in Stoke Gifford yard by the MOM's. They used to regularly "spruce-up" just the ID boards, running numbers on vehicles and would often just touch up the white painted handrails and lamp brackets leaving everything else grubby. This may have been an interim exam??

I understand the frustration, I tend to plan annually what my purchases will be these days and hardly ever "spot-buy". It is a bit of a pain to wait. We know how discerning today's modellers are, and the producers cant be blamed really. Burngullow is near me and rather sadly a NACCO graveyard at present. I can obtain some close ups and broadside pictures if anyone would like them, or could add them to this thread - let me know. I plan to purchase some, clean & weathered, a bit out of my 1979 - 1989 era - but worth having nonetheless. Cheers Craig