4mm Parkend Marsh Sidings in P4

[Pencarrow]

Another photo session today saw another of Bath Road's Class 22s lurking in the undergrowth:
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The sad-eyed locos do lurking really well. Lovely photo.

 

[Captain Kernow]

5328 is the skilled work of Bob Isgar, from whom I was fortunate enough to buy it earlier this week.

 

[MarkR]

Hi Tim,
What are the origins of the 43xx?
Many thanks
Mark

 

[Captain Kernow]

Hi Tim,
What are the origins of the 43xx?
Many thanks
Mark

Hi Mark,

Bob says it's a Mainline body, with added detail on a Whitbourne Models etched chassis.

Whitbourne Models was a small concern that apparantly flourished briefly in the early - mid-1980s, with the chassis products being akin to those of Perserverance.

 

[MarkR]

Hi Tim
Many thanks for the 43xx info, I've never heard of Whitbourne Models.
The 43xx is my favourite class of loco, especially in black.
I have a couple of the Bachmann version, one green, one black, plus a Lionheart 7mm one in green, I've had it for several years and it is yet to turn a wheel!!
Mark

 

[Captain Kernow]

Not much traffic on offer from the Free Miners at Parkend today:

 

[Captain Kernow]

Bit more traffic on offer from Whitecliff Quarry this time:

 

[Captain Kernow]

Another fairly busy day in the Forest:

 

[Jordan]

Another photo session today saw another of Bath Road's Class 22s lurking in the undergrowth:
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Sorry to comment late on an older post.....
The Second Man seems rather more keen than the Driver to see where he's going, there....??!!

 

[Captain Kernow]

 

[Alan]

Always lovely to see the lines in the Forest modelled.

 

[Osgood]

Presumably the walls of the loading bank originally formed part of something quite substantial?

 

[Captain Kernow]

Presumably the walls of the loading bank originally formed part of something quite substantial?

Not really, it was only ever a loading bank for local tramways, which ran from local mines to the Severn & Wye yard.

 

[Captain Kernow]

It's the summer of 1966 and steam is no more in the Forest:

 

[Dave Holt]

Summer of 69 was better.
Dave.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Harking back to another fantasy sequence - the keeping open of Parkend Royal Colliery and the equally unlikely excursion of an improbably NCB loco to Marsh Sidings...

 

[Jordan]

It's the summer of 1966 and steam is no more in the Forest:

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Lovely evocative photo, but looking at the loco itself, I'm surprised how distorted the frame is.
Then again, if it's Heljan, maybe I shouldn't be....

 

[Captain Kernow]

Lovely evocative photo, but looking at the loco itself, I'm surprised how distorted the frame is.
Then again, if it's Heljan, maybe I shouldn't be....

Well, it did start life as a factory-weathered Heljan example.

 

[Captain Kernow]

Just a few wagons parked in Marsh Sidings:

 

[Captain Kernow]

The era is revealed as the early 1970s, with a Class 25 working some coal wagons into the yard for loading with Free Miners coal: