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Celebrating Saturdays ‘great escape’ for Darlington FC tonight (as I was on nights last night) - Darkest from the Ennerdale craft brewery 4.2% Porter!

The Hornby website spell checker can’t be working-

Next on the work bench - this will replace the current class 37 loco allocated to the Eastleigh to Tees Yard 6E30 Speedlink service.

Charwelton is 36’ long, if it had been constructed to actual scale by the original builders Wolverhampton MRC it would be 70+’ long but you can still have a really good representation I think at over half the length.

Thank you and yes we have had quite a few discussions around NSE and if it would have reached Charwelton and beyond! An interesting thought about Daventry Parkway! Ps- please don’t mention class 50’s as we have enough trouble keeping them off running in the 80’s 😂😂 (on-going in house joke).

Working weekend a great success, layout wiring upgraded to the fiddle yard panel and getting the Ironstone branch working for redundant ballast workings just some of the jobs on the list!

With the fantastic news that we will be attending our home show this September (Darlington MRS) we are having a working weekend to fettle some issues from the last show and to upgrade the fiddle yard DCC panel connections! Photos from and during the weekend will hopefully follow! Here is another from the archive while you wait!-

It’s stood at D887 signal now T887 and still on the same gantry (I think it’s an optical illusion so it’s not beyond the signal). Ironically just today my train was routed into 1 northbound due to BTP attending a train that was occupying platform 4.

I think the thread brief has been more than fulfilled! Fantastic lighting and depth of field!

All the best guys- https://www.facebook.com/100041630905166/posts/pfbid0ha8i25n2a1RzfsQ3NewEtQP26CAe5uY1YmJLXWzcHNCFZoLR6zMhczoCXaQBcgwwl/?

One of our group has also picked up a copy and we used it to look into some headcodes etc.

One of the great parts of doing this project was the speculation of what would/should have been or would have actually happened if the line had stayed open! Those decisions had to be made by ourselves as a group (with or without the blessings of many opinions on both this and other forums) taking into consideration operational features of the layout and modifications needed to the layout that we inherited! Researching train headcodes and formations and flows using old timetables has also opened up a whole new world beyond model railways!

One from the archives- 31418 on a up passenger passes the station heading south!

From the flames…………… built almost exactly where your photo shows the works entrance is the new A1 trust loco works part of the re-development for the whole area in the run up to S&D 2025. (Photo - A1 trust webpage).

37033 awaits departure from Thorne Yard after running around its train.

A wet night playing football so a decent winter beer tonight - Tirril Lakeland brewery, Dungeon Ghyll Stout 5% is a welcome beer in front of the fire to warm up to!

‘Freezing out in the shed tonight’ Great updates as always!! Ps- your shed temperature seems to mirror our club rooms at Darlington as the heating system has been condemned 🥶🥶😂😂

I think more drinking den than shop? Hansons brewery I believe.

one for the ‘when the real thing looks like a model’ page!

I think they are all correct for “Charwelton into the 80’s’! -Might need a name/decade change to get your wish though 🤔🤔😜

Thanks for the tip! The spreadsheet is on a shared drive so each owner can update as required. The colour coding is for who is the owner and is replicated over the other 6 pages for coaching stock/revenue freight/NPCCS/Departmental/DMU (I edited screen shot down to remove personal details and other columns that weren’t relevant to the post).

We currently have a loco roster that totals 55 (before Xmas presents kick in). here is the up-to-date list so far-

The HST is quite frankly the most amazing railway phenomenon- they looked for years so ultra modern in old infrastructure pictures then seemingly without notice became instantly retro in a modern railway environment! Top class!

1- The waiting room Durham 2- York tap 3- Stalybridge buffet

Perhaps it was just as well (lucky) I didn’t bump into him whilst at the show then 🤔🤔😂