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WKT Well, I know I’m used to working on complicated models but this is something else as I have no plans, limited pictures but do have a lot of imagination!!! Current state of play with the rail guards just added and now left overnight to dry. Side sprays with handrail next and then the pump which will be interesting….!

Seems to be open wagon day down at Encombe Town station..... All are welcome, bring your own?

PM most useful and thank you for sending it..

Not sure if this picture was going to work. The family sitting on the bench are a very old Dart Castings model and I expect are the oldest on this layout though from this angle the young lad looks like he's supporting a moustache!!!! The seat and lamp are also from Dart's with the trolley from Mudmagnet Models with some Modelscenes luggage.

Thanks to Mr S Snooper we appear to have resolved the tender coupling issues between the tenders…. As suggested hook and eye. Next ?

Time for an express thundering through.....

WKT (no not bowled but the weed killing train) Third tender had coal removed, tank added, recess for pump and buffers added and primed to see any issues. Now to decided what to do next?? Still got to work out how to coupling these three together…..might be the next task as I suspect this will need a lot of handling……pointless adding stuff only to knock it off! Seem to be a couple of draw bars close coupled using the normal slot but the other end?

Using up the last few pictures of the milk train ..... Back to reality tomorrow?

Designed for main line clearance of weeds though you never know it might end up down the branch line!! All the pictures I have show just one Toad and in some cases a converted toad as a mess/workshop.

In the short term could I use this as a milk train brake??? Painted brown perhaps? Or the full brake version in brown?

The one that I half looked at was the Milk Brake van no.1399 but at the moment still looking……couldn’t find a kit of it!

I do agree but I don't have one.......which one would you suggest I need to add? Hence the Toad.

Swooping past is the Dukedog with its freight....milk. Picture taken by one of out train spotting friends standing on the branch line track.......naughty boy? It was this series of pictures that resulted in the two 4 wheel UD wagons going back to the workshop as I noticed when editing the pictures I had forgotten to add the restraining straps...you can see them on the ED one at the end. Sometimes useful to look at your own pictures!!!!!

The whole milk train passes by

Mixed freight passing through, Railcar waiting for its first customers.....

And now the sketching and interpreting of pictures begins in order that I have some idea of what I’m building. Funny how people are standing right in the way in them pictures!!!!! This going to be based on some fact but a lot of educational freelance guesstimating bluffing

And on this cold but sunny day here are all the components that make up the weed killing train formation taking a well earned rest down by the coast. Some are dipping their wheels in the water whilst others are sun bathing. Such a peaceful, typical scene for LM…. Nothing unusual at all?

Nice Storm coming, time to go home......

A Dukedog approaches....

Just think what they must have been inhaling

Agree I was amazed how lacking in any type of protection or care for their own safety there was. Spray everywhere in the wind and not a goggle in sight. Different era…..!!!

Just water I’m afraid as I’m not licensed for anything else….!

From my research it appears the pump is a single action steam type which was fed from the engines steam heating pipe altered to act as a steam supply feed. The pumps purpose was three fold….to move the chemical concentrate from the storage tank to the tenders, then the mixture to the spray noozle and finally to fetch water from an outside source to refill the tenders if necessary. On the colour situation it was not black l’m afraid as I have a clear picture of Pannier 5727 in green attached to 3 tenders, the chassis of them is black but as a guess I would say the tenders appear grey, then a black chemical wagon, mess wagon (could be based on a Toad) and at the end a normal GW painted Toad. My other thought could it be red oxide paint? Did they use that as a finish? Just finished adding the additional buffers and all quiet in the railway room. Edit. Forgot to add the picture…..!!!!!

Express passing time.... ???

Yes, I have this and a few similar pictures. If memory serves this is the Taunton one and that tender colour does not read as green!!! Still puzzling that one.