Didcot Railway Centre. (PICTURE HEAVY)

[35011 GSN]

love the pictures, Bonnie Prince Charlie is very yum!

that person i named Dave and have employed him to ruin all your photos

[trainsandco]

Here's a taster clip

Great Western Society 50th Anniversary - Taster Video

It is currently being stabilised by Youtube, but hopefully that will be complete soon and you can then enjoy it

Ben

[trainsandco]

More pictures

I had to be dropped off early today, so I sat at the station and read my book, watched some trains (got chocked by carbon Monoxide and Sulfur thanks to a 165 )


I worked on this today - try and guess what it is




Yes! It was the 'Rat'!


Yey, artsy fartsy shot!











Thats yer lot!

Ben

[kennyGWSR]

Great photos Ben! Can you get some of 5 Shannon before she is stripped down please?

[trainsandco]

Here is my video that I made of GWS 50. I will apologies in advance on behalf of youtube, as they have decided that my 16:9 widescreen video will look better in a squashed 4:3 Format. (after spending 2 hours saving the video and then 1 1/2 hours uploading it, I really cba to remake it, so I may upload it on another site like vimeo, but we'll see)

GWS 50

Ben

[trainsandco]

Guesssss who

Pendennis Tried to make a break for it!

My favourite little engine raising steam for the last time for a while

This is the last you shall see of this livery for a while!


Pendennis' Firebox

Here's some for you Kenny






3822 While the shed was empty (they're doing a lot of moving around at the moment and almost every loco is outside!

3822 taken from a ladder

Cookham manor, one of the 3 left in the shed!

7202 makes steady progress

Very empty shed (and my auto-focus is having a day off )

Wee Tank engines

Argh! It that thing again!

Artsy Fartsy!


10 Containers bringing building things in (don't ask me what they're building, as I'm only a loco monkey) - and there's another 16 to come!

Oh it tried so hard to escape! but then realised what was good for it!

You know that annoying moment when you're running a model train and the last coach decides to uncouple?

Pannier tank

A crannnnnne!

Helpful plaque

More artsy fartsy


Lots of engines outside!

18000

Trojan going to collect its coach


Lines of locos


Lots of engine in the engine room

Cabful of controls


Pendennis' Boiler


What be this? :O

More wee tank engines!

BPC No.1

Yes, this is an engineering works

Trojan doing some shunting with scald marks

Pendennis in experimental Silver Livery being turned (This was just before Trojan hit the turntable sign!)

It be bumped!

King and a Castle



Seeing it like this in the open, I feel quite proud (even if I have only painted a little bit and remade the valves )

Happy Boiler

Unfortunately this is out of service as well

Not a sticker Shed Plate

Some of Pendennis has run


There is more to come soon

Ben

[trainsandco]

Well, I said there'd be more!

Continuing from the last post

Tried to be arsty fartsy, but failed....miserably!

The Saint's frames have now been painted Black (instead of orange primer!)

Cookham Manor


Another one for you Kenny

Steaming down





And thats it for pictures now


I have a video or 2 of Trojan shunting, quite a fitting end for its ticket, doing what it was built for

Ben

[35011 GSN]

amazing pics! I especially like BPC

[trainsandco]

Trojans Last Shunt



Ben

[siquelme]

Thanks for uploading these photos ben the ones in the engine shed have been great tools for research and my layout.

[trainsandco]

Glad I can be of assistance SM If want any more pictures, I'll get them for you next time I'm there (2 weeks today)

Ben

[siquelme]

Actually i have a mission for ya

At Didcot how is the water cranes in front of the engine shed contacted to the main water supply? Is it underground water pipes to what looks like a water storage on top of the coal stage or is it just contacted to the local water supply?

Thanks

[trainsandco]

I know that they definatley used to be as there are some massive pipes in the bottom brick part of the coaling stage, not sure whether they are still in use though? Although there are a few wet patches inside the coal part of the coaling stage as if the roof has been dripping, so I can't say that I'm sure, but it may still be in use.

Ben

[Two Hoots]

With Trojan going out of service, do you have any idea about when some others (Saint, Pendennis etc) will start running?

[trainsandco]

I've been asked this a few times, tbh, I'm not sure what'll be back in steam yet, it'll either be 4144 or 7202 - I think. The Saint and County are still a fair way off. Although I think the Saint may arrive at around the time when Pendennis comes back (2014).

Ben