jollysmart

Great layout which manages the trick of looking far larger than it is due to I imagine much thought being put into its construction, well deserved feature and a pleasure to read. The photos are excellent and show the layout very well indeed.

Maybe dress up as the figure then get 3D scanned so you can effectively be on the footplate? Bonus is getting paint on yourself won't be an issue!

I have seen a video which tells the way that the locals pronounce it, min-ories, not minor-ies, if that helps? I alway pronounced it as min-ories but it was nice to have it confirmed.

I drove a few identical to that one some in the amazing yellow and previously ridden in several more as a child, just said Lincoln on the side instead of Norwich, they were actually better than the contemporary Anglia vans and their replacement Vauxhall HA vans.

Doug Hewson is the large scale wagon and ground level railway one, 3H mouldings were based in his garage in North Kelsey, Lincs at that time. Doug was a talented modeller, I remember him building a fully sprung 8F on 0 gauge around then and he was an experienced senior engineer .

If I remember correctly the Coke hoppers were made by Three Aitch expressly for Roy as he needed several trains worth of them at the time for Gainsborough Central. Roy showed me the new moulds when they arrived and I'm fairly sure they were very expensive, due to their intricacy, compared to the other Three Aitch moulds for the 0 gauge wagons they were using at the time. So mid 70's is correct.

A deserted Barnetby 12/12/22, still freezing cold and misty, 158788 with the 13 minute late running 15:39 Leicester to Grimsby Town.

156410 with the not very busy 13:00 to Leicester in glorious but freezing sunshine , when is it ever warm at Barnetby, 8/12/22?

I have to agree with you about Doctor Allen, his photographs beautifully illustrate the East Anglian railway just on the cusp of modernisation or complete closure with the last gasp of steam in a setting that hadn't changed substantially in decades. They certainly drove my liking for the area and it's complex railway history. My bookcase content is also very like yours. I do like the colour palette that you use on Upbech it captures the overall look very well and has given it great character, I really do enjoy your photos of the layout and stock.

I think that the extension to the right was added with the platform to suggest a passenger service actually going further as previously it was freight only.

Slightly late but congratulations on 600 pages.

Obviously significant levels of proof will be required.

David, 37242 looks absolutely superb, you've made a cracking job of it as it has the presence and looks of a working 37 now. Top job.

Very true, I stand on the platform and remember the station as it used to be in the late steam/early diesel days and apart from the disused signal cabins and the remains of the station building it is unrecognisable, the semaphores were the last remnant.

158889 departs Barnetby with the 13:00 Leicester 9th November 2022

The crew finish off their fish and chip lunch waiting for departure time with 156415, Cleethorpes. 2/11/2021.

158791 waits in the bay, platform 5 at Doncaster 02/10/2022.

I can see them now.

17/05/2014 150278 pauses at Betws-y-Coed with a service to Blaneau FFestiniog

Certainly not uncommon in Lincoln centre.

Having crossed and recrossed that crossing numerous times per week in the 30 years I worked in Lincoln centre I can say with certainty that the stupidity at this crossing isn't limited to uni term times. It was a literally daily experience to see people vaulting over the closed gates or starting to run across as the barriers lowered to head height and then limboing under the second barrier as it came down. Wasting time is much more important than potential loss of your life.

02/10/2022 158791 waits at Doncaster.

150274 crosses over the ECML with the 11:22 Sheffield train, Doncaster, 02/10/2022.

156422 on 17:54 Barton on Humber to Cleethorpes approaches Barrow Haven station, closed for rebuild, 20/09/02022.

Different loco ownership to what I have previously seen on these workings. 15/9/22 at Cleethorpes. Excuse the poor phone photo.