Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
I have now finished 7418 and she is seen here arriving at Bethesda Sidings with a short goods working:
The loco stabled on the stop blocks in the yard:
A worm's eye view:
I've also been getting a couple of RTR locos ready for use on the layout. This really only involves running in, replacing the couplings and weathering. Both of these are light railway locos, although the Sentinel would only really have been used in the military depot at Llanddewi, at the end of the Vale of Radnor Light Railway.
Sentinel 'Llanddewi No. 2' arrives at Bethesda with a short working for transfer to British Railways:
Stabled at the stop blocks:
Also completed is the Peckett 'Brynllefrith', named after one of the villages served by the Vale of Radnor Light Railway:
Here's a short sequence, showing the Peckett arriving in the yard and 7418 departing -
The loco stabled on the stop blocks in the yard:
A worm's eye view:
I've also been getting a couple of RTR locos ready for use on the layout. This really only involves running in, replacing the couplings and weathering. Both of these are light railway locos, although the Sentinel would only really have been used in the military depot at Llanddewi, at the end of the Vale of Radnor Light Railway.
Sentinel 'Llanddewi No. 2' arrives at Bethesda with a short working for transfer to British Railways:
Stabled at the stop blocks:
Also completed is the Peckett 'Brynllefrith', named after one of the villages served by the Vale of Radnor Light Railway:
Here's a short sequence, showing the Peckett arriving in the yard and 7418 departing -