My mind wanders. I’ve been looking for a little project to get me through the winter this year and a video (kedwards) on here has given me the following idea. A business has expanded into previously bombed out factory adjacent to the line due to the exponential expansion of the Sunday afternoon “high tea”. Rationing has all but finished, it is the late fifties, and people up and down the country have started eating tinned Salmon and Cucumber sandwiches with Trifle for afters, for their Sunday teas. Apparently an outfit called “B*rds” has also started making Trifles, out of a packet for goodness sake. That will never catch on.
Mrs Miggins' (Trifles) Ltd. has reconditioned the derelict factory whereby it is to be supplied with custard, jelly, cream and hundreds and thousands to join the road transported sponge cake and Mrs Miggins' (Northumberland sherry) Ltd. finest pale Amontilladodo ( I was going to make that rude but decided against it) on the production line. Finished Trifles will leave the factory by lorry. Mrs Miggins' (Haulage & Storage) Ltd. has a fleet of Bedford Lorries. Happily, as far as rail is concerned, the recipe for the Trifles requires equal portions of the four ingredients. (yes, yes I know 100s and 1000s would be a lot less, but it’s my Trifle factory OK, and the gelatine is added to the jelly when it gets to the factory or it would be impossible to get it out of the tanker.)
A small fleet of rail tank wagons will be procured, one tank for each of the four ingredients. Tanks will be filled up in the night at the main factory and transported to the new “facility”, and used up during the two day shifts (06:00 -14:00 and 14:00 – 22:00). In the evening they will be hauled back to the main factory for washing and refilling. A spokesman for Mrs Miggins' (Trifles) Ltd. said, “We would use road throughout, but the lorry drivers are scared of the dark and operating rights on the railway were cheap. The locomotive was, according to the manufacturer, a failure, but 99% of the parts are the same as their standard gauge locomotives”.
This will make the “Trifle Express” the first (05:45 arrival (fifteen minutes to connect the wagons to the factory)) and last (22:15 departure (fifteen minutes to disconnect the wagons)) on the line.
For my project then, SWMBO has bought (me) a Bachmann G Scale Devious Diesel for Christmas (this is of course a perfect base for a model of English Electrics little known 3 foot gauge "08ish" shunting locomotive, (this was the only one was ever built, because, by the time EE had got their act together everyone had bought lorries) and 4yes4 tankers from that chap in the east coast for my Birthday (I did consider using the preferred TTTE tank wagons, however, these were sixty or seventy quid each whereas she got four tanks for seventy two from ECR) . These will be suitably butchered to make up a self contained train for exclusive use. The train will have two conventional buffers instead of the railway standard single centre buffer and a continuous brake will be supplied, allowing the train to run without a brakevan and be single manned. This will stop the main railway from pinching the shunter for its own use.
In theory.
More information/photos as it happens. Probably sometime next month.
Mrs Miggins' (Trifles) Ltd. has reconditioned the derelict factory whereby it is to be supplied with custard, jelly, cream and hundreds and thousands to join the road transported sponge cake and Mrs Miggins' (Northumberland sherry) Ltd. finest pale Amontilladodo ( I was going to make that rude but decided against it) on the production line. Finished Trifles will leave the factory by lorry. Mrs Miggins' (Haulage & Storage) Ltd. has a fleet of Bedford Lorries. Happily, as far as rail is concerned, the recipe for the Trifles requires equal portions of the four ingredients. (yes, yes I know 100s and 1000s would be a lot less, but it’s my Trifle factory OK, and the gelatine is added to the jelly when it gets to the factory or it would be impossible to get it out of the tanker.)
A small fleet of rail tank wagons will be procured, one tank for each of the four ingredients. Tanks will be filled up in the night at the main factory and transported to the new “facility”, and used up during the two day shifts (06:00 -14:00 and 14:00 – 22:00). In the evening they will be hauled back to the main factory for washing and refilling. A spokesman for Mrs Miggins' (Trifles) Ltd. said, “We would use road throughout, but the lorry drivers are scared of the dark and operating rights on the railway were cheap. The locomotive was, according to the manufacturer, a failure, but 99% of the parts are the same as their standard gauge locomotives”.
This will make the “Trifle Express” the first (05:45 arrival (fifteen minutes to connect the wagons to the factory)) and last (22:15 departure (fifteen minutes to disconnect the wagons)) on the line.
For my project then, SWMBO has bought (me) a Bachmann G Scale Devious Diesel for Christmas (this is of course a perfect base for a model of English Electrics little known 3 foot gauge "08ish" shunting locomotive, (this was the only one was ever built, because, by the time EE had got their act together everyone had bought lorries) and 4yes4 tankers from that chap in the east coast for my Birthday (I did consider using the preferred TTTE tank wagons, however, these were sixty or seventy quid each whereas she got four tanks for seventy two from ECR) . These will be suitably butchered to make up a self contained train for exclusive use. The train will have two conventional buffers instead of the railway standard single centre buffer and a continuous brake will be supplied, allowing the train to run without a brakevan and be single manned. This will stop the main railway from pinching the shunter for its own use.
In theory.
More information/photos as it happens. Probably sometime next month.
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