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As promised a few more Bradford Barton black and white type pictures.

I try to please . I'll try and take some new shots in the next week. Will be busy on Sat and at Sothwold on Sunday helping out on Potterbourne.

After re-reading my old copy of "Diesels on the Devon Main Line" by Bradford Barton and looking at the B&W images of Bradfield I was inspired to convert the last couple of images of the milk train to B&W.

Thanks Nick and Jeff, I do enjoy taking pics of the layout and the little camera and lighting at the back of the layout are enabling me to get some new angles.

The big supermarkets weren't around in those days to put the squeeze on farmers.

Not put anything up for a bit, Took this a couple of weeks ago, the dairy from a slightly different angle from which I have photographed before. It still needs a little more work on the weathering.

Enjoyed the article, the photos here and the video, you can't have to much GWR/WR. a lovely layout.

NoT sure If I've posted these two before 4561 having just arrived from Slapton Whilst pannier 4679 is about to come off shed

My Brother lived at Bourne End (after the line to High Wycombe had gone). I'll be interested to see some more up to date photos. Looks like an excellent layout.

81C, I hate to disappoint you but it is the standard lay the ballast and then pva it.

I know where you are coming from Pete. After living in Forest Gate for some 28 years.

If I rememeber correctly Tony Wright in his review of the Hornby A4 in BRM said it was so good he would no longer kit build an A4. So I presume it's pretty good.

Andrew there are a couple of overhead shots of the station area on Page 12 of the thread.

If you look at the track plan on page 1 of the tread you'll notice it is more of an ovoid shape in the scenic section thus allowing reasonably sweeping curves.

Mickey it's actually 11ft 6 x 8ft 6.

Thank you Colin I feel all

I have begun to cover some of the hanging basket liner with static grass see posta bout a page or two back.

Keep asking Jeff. Your correct it is Hanging basket liner which I bleached and then painted with a very watered down tamiya Flat Green. Not sure i'd bother with the bleaching nowadays (it actually teurned the hanging basket liner yellow. still it helps with the sun bleached look of it. Looking at the photo I must get round to put the etched wipers i have somewhere hidden awy.

Now the layout has some back lighting I can now take decent, if somewhat guess work, photos from the backscene side of the layout.This is one of the slapton local leaving Wencombe for Slapton.

Thanks chaps for kind comments. Jeff the ballast is Woodlands scenic about a fifty/fifty mix of fine and medium. The colour was the light grey which didn't look quite right so I sprayed it with Humbrol dark brown acrylic from and aerosol. reas where locos are likely to stand have ben spryed with smokey black.

A couple of shots of D6331 leaving Wencombe for NA with the evening milk train where it will be added to the London bound train.

Sorry about the delay Robin I've been away for a week.. You are correct you do pour it. The first time I used it on the old layout i poured it a bit too deep and although it looked and felt as if it had set it hadn't, so when I put some boats on it (it was a harbour scene) after a week they more a less glued themselves to it. I did manage to get them off but with some difficulty. Although not so important for the stream I took great care in only putting a minimum on, and then gave it a week and then added a bit more. I did this three or four times. This time it dried quickly and non sticky. Some of it ran over the rocks so they had to be re painted to get rid of the shine.

Oh alright then. where's me camera? edited to show I'm not upset.

I just assumed that's the Geoff you meant.

Mickey it's Alan by the way, although it is nice to be compared to the creator of Penhydd.