ColinH

For those of you with a long memory you may recall that 12 months ago we had to put a notice out regarding price of admission as a publication had made a diary entry that was completely incorrect. We thought we had cleared this up for our next show and in fact the publication in question has got it correct. However, another non modelling publication from the same publishing group has put up a diary entry not having received anything from us. The wording is almost the same as last year but there are mistakes in it regarding admission price and our website address. So, if any of you happen to read Railway Magazine be advised that the admission price to the show is £10 and not £2.50!

The joys of being an Exhibition Manager..

Am I the only layout co-ordinator who has not yet received their paperwork?

 

Les

Rise Park.

We are still awaiting for our paperwork to arrive and it is now three days since the show ended!

Colin

Stackton Tressell

Ian

Thanks for the photos. It appears that what we thought was a goods shed could have been for coal store age. Will have to make some changes!

Colin

I think this may be the photo you're talking about.

 

Freshwater.jpg

 

I believe that this shows the old coal shed which is now part of the garden centre. The openings, boarded over and certainly not windows, are at the right height to unload wagons with their drop doors down and I believe that this is the way coal was handled at Freshwater though I'm open to correction. There are also a couple of more conventional looking boarded coal bins at the end of the building.

 

As far as I know, there was no goods shed as such at Freshwater and most non coal goods would have been handled at the end loading bay opposite the platform road. Remember that the vast majority of goods traffic on the island was coal so sophisticated goods handling would have been unnecessary.

 

The wagon, no 26145, was an early SR transfer to the island and was a standard LBSC Diag 1367 5 plank. Several of these were transferred with round ends which were later cut down to match the majority of square ended 5 planks.

 

Colin

thanks Ian. Look forward to seeing photo. Here at Stafford we have an EM gauge layout of Freshwater that was built by one of our members many years ago. You may have seen it as a layout under development at our show last February. We have not been able to determine what the coal arrangements were so your help is appreciated.

Has anyone got a photo of the call wharf at Freshwater. Was there an actual wharf or was domestic coal piled on the ground as is seen in photos at Ventor.