Will Crompton

The other side of Kof 6501.

Hiding round the back of the heavy workshop.

Cab detail of 6501.

Also from August 2016 a rather nice black example witha coach for scale.

And another.

Another closeup.

Now some Kof closeups of the two in the yard.

Here are some more Nordlingen Kofs from August 2016. Firstly a couple in the yard.

Nordlingen Railway museum in Bavaria is well worth a visit if one gets the chance. The museum clearly believes that once can never have too many Kofs. I've been there a few times and checking back through my photos when I came across this thread I found some pictures of the wee beasties. First here are some taken in August 2007. The first two pictures show a partial view of the roundhouse. The second two show some hiding in the heavy workshop building. There are all sorts of wierd and wonderful things at Nordlingen.

Proper rail blue icicles.

The NKV looks like it's has recently received attention at a C and W depot (Calligraphy and Writing). From the KDH archive on Flickr. The caption says it believes the picture was taken by Brian Beer in the early 80s.

Perpendicular Gothic signals dating back to the late 15th century.

This site is definately inspirational. I first came across it in the Rail Express article on wagon repair depots by David Ratcliffe (June 2013 issue). It's almost if it was laid out by someone who likes micro-layouts! When I came to the third photo for a few seconds I was trying to work out where this shot was taken from - then I realised it was your layout! Fantastic - definately a shot for the 'model looking like the real thing' thread. If I can achieve something a tenth as good as this I will be pleased. Another contemporary example that has scope for adaptation is the current facility at Arpley Yard in Warrington. From Flickr, taken by Douglas Rowson on July 15th 2015.

Barton Hill wagon repair depot in the early 1980s, taken by Robert Tarling. This shows a nice little detail which I might incorporate in my WRD when I get a round tuit in the form of the inset tracks for storing wheelsets at right angles to the siding under the hoist.

Here's another view of the wagon repair sidings alongside Blyth Cambois TMD from Ernies Railway Archive Flickr site.

Many thanks. Following your suggestion I found this searching on Blyth Cambois TMD on Flickr which is I think the image (or one very like) you are referring to. Taken (I believe) by John Reay.

Wagon repair depots and sidings provide plenty of scope for micro/small size layouts or as part of a larger system. I think they give opportunities for justifying a variety of wagons and interesting scenic details. I'm currently planning a micro WRD layout myself. I though it would might be useful to have a thread collecting relevant images. I've found similar threads here (such as the parcel train thread) very informative. So to see if there is any interest I'll start the ball rolling with this classic photo of the small facility which used to be at Hereford, taken by Jamerail on May 1985 and from his Flickr thread. It positively oozes atmosphere - there's a micro layout right there!

Wading through railway pictures of Warrington on Flickr (it's a dirty job but somebody has to do it) I found this photo of a couple of tanker wagons poking out of the 'hole' into the sidings. It's from 'Stuart's Fots' photostream and was taken in 2008.

Blimus! Western in Warrington, 1962/3. Picture taken by Eddie Bellass. And - Winwick jn (Warrington) D6338+D63xx St Rollox to Laira delivery run,1962. Taken by Jim Carter).

I think that is very possible. Looking at old OS maps on the National Library od Scotland website once can see the line running to the transporter bridge and closely parallel just to the north siding(s) labeled Crosfields High Level Sidings from which track leads into the Crosfields Soapworks internal system. On Google Maps one can see a lot of the surviving inset soapworks track. For example this screenshot from the Crosfields site looking back towards New Found Out Siding.

'Here's a google earth view from 2005 showing a couple of wagons in the siding' Genius!! I'd forgotten about the Google Earth temporal slider. I just looked at 2009 and I think one can make out the location where the hoist was - some inset track to the left of the remaining siding.

I'm getting the impression from your and other posts that it was used intermittently for repair work at best. The David Ratcliffe article says it was sometimes used for temporarily storing dangerous load vehicles which had a problem given it's out of the way location. One of his photos is of a BOC tanker which was venting liquid nitrogen. He notes that as the facility had road access so that specialist teams (in this case from BOC) could get on site easily to deal with the problem. As my layout will be 'inspired by' rather than a recreation under Rule 1 it will probably be permanently manned and busier.

Many thanks for these, they are very helpful. I'm toying with the idea of having a short length of truncated inset track in the layout suggesting a siding was originally put of a line to a factory. I love the shots of the transporter bridge. That is an impressive bit of kit.

In the Rail Express article David Ratcliffe writes that it 'dealt with a wide range of wagons'. One of the pictures shows a glycol tank wagon under the hoist and is captioned 'VTG-owned glycol tank 23 80 7391 036-2 is seen undergoing repair at Warrington Arpley C and W in June 1993'. I wonder if as the new facility in Arpley Yard itself was brought into use, the old C and W at New Found Out Siding was used as you suggest for a period. With regard to the dates that New Found Out Siding(s) was/were in operation I realised I had made an error about the dates of the photos in Rail Express in one of my posts above (now corrected). The photos range in date from January 1987 to June 1993. I've found some further clues about dates when this facility may have been active in some different editions I have of 'Rail Atlas of Britain and Ireland' by S.K. Baker. In the 4th edition (1984) there is an inset map of Warrington (p 45) which shows the C and W sidings and also just next to them (north) a line to a Lever Brothers soapworks. The only earlier edition I have (3rd, 1980) does not have the inset of Warrington so there isn't enough detail to see if it was there at this date. The facility is shown in the 5th edition, 1988 (p 45), the 8th edition, 1996 (p 51) and in the 11th edition, 2007 (p 510. In the two later editions they are labelled as Wagon Repair sidings.

Agreed - it's very inspirational. As mentioned above I'm planning a small wagon repair depot layout. I'm hoping to incorporate some ideas from different real life examples I've seen pictures of and the 'entrance' here may well come into play in some shape or form. Hopefully I'll start a thread on the layout in an appropriate forum here once I get past the procrastination...er, erm I mean the design phase.😁