The story of PETERSDALE my OO gauge Branch Line layout

[glencairn]

Keep the pictures coming, RailwayRobbo.
Love them.

Glencairn

[RailwayRobbo]

DIESELS AT PETERSDALE (Part 6)

The day continues

The class 121 'Bubble Car' heads back down the branch with it's passengers on board.

Meanwhile back at the station D5013 has come off shed and coupled up to the inspection coach to take it back to the mainline station. 11217 continues to shunt a few wagons in the goods yard.

D5013 plus inspection coach enter the cutting after crossing the canal and heading back down the branch.

[RailwayRobbo]

MEET THE PETERSDALE LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT

The Diesel Roster

D8134, D5312,13029 and 11217.

D5013, D5085, D5237 and D7645

3 Car DMU, DPU and Class 121 'Bubble Car.

D9536, D8405, D2581 and D2282.

D8568 and D5700.

Steam Roster to follow.

[glencairn]

They look like they are under orders. lol.

They do look good. Thanks for showing.

Glencairn

[manna]

G'Day Gents

A very nice line up, excellent work.

manna

[RailwayRobbo]

J94 68049 with a train made up of a couple of old Mainline coaches at least 35 years old.

J94 68049 waits in the bay platform No.2 to depart from Petersdale Station.

The train crosses the canal bridge.

The train approaches the colliery junction and continues it's journey down the branch.

This must be the first time out of their boxes for these 2 coaches for many, many years.
The coaches and the J94 go all the way back to Petersdale version 1 in the mid 80s.

[RailwayRobbo]

Current PETERSDALE Loco Roster - STEAM LOCOMOTIVES (Part 1)

NCB J94s 0-6-0 'Harry' & 'Peter' BR J94 0-6-0 68049.

IVATT Class 2MT 2-6-2 41241, 41221 & 41272.

FAIRBURN Class 4MT 2-6-4 42267 & 42073. BR Class 3MT 2-6-2 82005.

BR Class 4MT 4-6-0 75027. Class 5MT 'Crab' 2-6-0 42789. Class 3F 'Jinty' 0-6-0 47266.

[RailwayRobbo]

Current PETERSDALE Loco Roster - STEAM LOCOMOTIVES (Part 3)

Class 3F 'Jinty' 0-6-0 47354.

IVATT Class 2MT 2-6-0 46440, 46426 & 46521.

Class 8F 2-8-0 48628, NCB J94 0-6-0 No.4. NCB 'USA Tank' 0-6-0 No.36, Class 1F 0-6-0 41708 & Sentinal Y1 0-4-0 68138.

B1 Class 5MT 2-6-0 61180, Class 4F 0-6-0 43924 & Class 3F 0-6-0 43474.

[RailwayRobbo]

Current PETERSDALE Loco Roster - STEAM LOCOMOTIVES (Part 4)

4F 0-6-0 44044, Compound 4-4-0 41157 & IVATT 2MT 2-6-2 41243.

IVATT 4MT 2-6-0 43037 43018 & BR 4MT 2-6-0 76069.

WD 8F 2-8-0 90441, J11 0-6-0 64325 & 4F 0-6-0 44341.

BR STANDARD TANK 4MT 2-6-4 80079, 80136 & 80135.

[glencairn]

An impressive fleet of locomotives, Railway Robbo.

Glencairn

[RailwayRobbo]

A few pictures of the latest addition to the PETERSDALE Loco Roster as promised.

Hornby K1 2-6-0 62065.

KEEP SAFE EVERYBODY.

Pete (RailwayRobbo).

[dan8400]

How much stock have you got?!

Seriously impressive collection there, Pete

Thanks
Dan

[End2end]

WOW what a sizeable fleet you have.
Thanks for the pictures. Great stuff.
Thanks
End2end

[RailwayRobbo]

MINOR DISASTER AT PETERSDALE

Not a derailment or shunting accident.
Not even leaves on the line but ...............................

MICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About a week ago I was doing my annual 'can I throw anything away' search in the layout shed.
Of course there's loads of other non-railway stuff in there as well.
At the end of the fiddle yard I've got a big plastic container with bird seed in it. It doesn't have a top so I cover it with some old plywood.
There they were the tell tale signs the little black droppings. Those rodents were squatting in the shed. It was the first time I'd had mice in the shed since it was built.
Later I was having a check on the layout when I saw a few swans on the canal lying on their side. I didn't think much of it until I saw a pile of debris on the track at the colliery junction. The little critters had done a beaver job on some trees up against the backscene on the left hand side of the canal (as in the picture). They'd been for a wander around the shed yard by the looks of it and knocked a couple of the Farmer's Shire Horses over in the field above the shed in the back corner.
Nothing else was touched. I thought they may have had a nibble at the card buildings but they hadn't.
The one thing I haven't checked is the wiring. They don't seen to have been on the layout since but who knows. They don't seem interested in the bait blocks I've scattered around the layout either.
I have placed a bait box on the floor under the layout so they may be in there on their backs with their legs in the air stone dead fingers crossed. I'll have to check.
We shall see what happens.

Fallen trees.

The gap in the backscene where the trees once stood. Also the bait blocks that they don't seem bothered about lol.

[Admin4]

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