Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
There are, but I'll leave it to John to say, because I'm not sure if the line-up for the exhibitions concerned have been publicised yet.
4mm Parkend Marsh Sidings in P4
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Captain Kernow
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Most of John's mineral wagons were put through their paces (behind my Class 20) at at well-attended running night at D.R.A.G. last Monday evening:
Suffolk Dave
Western Thunderer
Lovely stuff!
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
Some more shunting was indulged in yesterday, all motive power pictured comes under the heading of 'exotic' or 'outrageously unlikely' for the Forest of Dean, but there you go.
Hymek shunting:
A very clean Warship has ventured down the Marsh branch:
And in an outrageously improbably re-writing of geological history, further coal reserves have been found in the nearby Parkend Royal mine, which has been kept open until the late 1960s. Here, the NCB loco, plated to run on BR metals, is shunting at Marsh Sidings:
Hymek shunting:
A very clean Warship has ventured down the Marsh branch:
And in an outrageously improbably re-writing of geological history, further coal reserves have been found in the nearby Parkend Royal mine, which has been kept open until the late 1960s. Here, the NCB loco, plated to run on BR metals, is shunting at Marsh Sidings:
Jim smith-wright
Western Thunderer
Nice stuff Tim. You need to nip off the headcode clips on your hymek though as the early ones didn't have them.
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
Hi Mark,
The 0-6-0T is a High Level Barclay kit. I do have a 'Victory' to convert to P4, but haven't done so yet.
The layout and the lovely scenic modelling is the work of John Farmer (aka 'Charon').
The 0-6-0T is a High Level Barclay kit. I do have a 'Victory' to convert to P4, but haven't done so yet.
The layout and the lovely scenic modelling is the work of John Farmer (aka 'Charon').
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
NCB loco shunting in the Forest:
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
One day in the early 1970s, this 08 was working in Chepstow Yard, re-arranging engineers wagons when she was hurriedly despatched to Lydney, to work the Parkend branch tripper, as the booked Class 25 had failed in the sidings at Lydney. Here she in in Marsh Sidings, Parkend:
Jim Read
Active Member
Amazing to see this!
We used to wander in FoD in the 70/80s and we stayed in the flat above the PO in Parkend once.
This was the first time I'd ever seen a 3 way point and had to walk down and have a look.
Very well done indeed it's just as I remember it.
Cheers and thanks - Jim
michael mott
Western Thunderer
Fantastic landscaping, capturing the essence of a line through the woods.
Michael
Michael
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
Yes, they were. It seemed very easy to just copy and paste, once I'd made a posting on RMWeb!
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
I would stress that Parkend Marsh Sidings is the work of my good friend, scenic maestro John Farmer, not me!
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Brings home how impermanent and transient this digital world is. Wonder how much of the current information will still be available to historians in future years. All those folk wondering what on earth a CK was...
AJC
Western Thunderer
Having, on and off, spent quite a bit of today trying to work out a 95 year old footnote referencing a set of documents between 500 and 650 years old, I can assure you that we historians are quite capable of creating enough of our own problems without the help of the digital world...
Adam
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
Another photo session today saw another of Bath Road's Class 22s lurking in the undergrowth:
