The Woodlock Line

[duncan1_9_8_4]

3 spare bricks, a bit of cement, and 10 mins work. The last bit of track (through the garden path) that wasn't enclosed in ballast, or any border is now sorted. I should buy shares in the Hope Valley Cement Works just down the road!

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

Railway Cats. In training.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Route familiarization?

 

[playmofire]

The one in the first photo is clearly well trained already.

 

[Paul M]

Just like the BR porters in the Good Old Days

 

[Chris Vernell]

Just like the BR porters in the Good Old Days

Did BR have any Porters?

 

[dunnyrail]

Did BR have any Porters?

Certainly did in the 1950’s and perhaps early 60’s, not entirely sure when they would have disappeared but certainly by privatization in 1994, however some of the TOC’s did try to reintroduce them but not entirely sure it would have fitted in with the profit motives.

 

[Chris Vernell]

(Did BR have any Porters?) Certainly did in the 1950’s and perhaps early 60’s, not entirely sure when they would have disappeared but certainly by privatization in 1994, however some of the TOC’s did try to reintroduce them but not entirely sure it would have fitted in with the profit motives.

Yes, I remember the human porters, but ...

 

[dunnyrail]

Yes, I remember the human porters, but ...
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Oh them sort of Porters, not many or even any to the best of my knowledge. There may have been some Porter built locomotives in industrial service. Certainly the WW1 and WW2 imports were not by Porter according to my research just now.

 

[Gizzy]

Did BR have any Porters?

Certainly at the end of the 80s.

I'd broke my toe and was on crutches then.

I had to get home from Wiltshire to Suffolk, via London.

I arranged to be met at Paddington and King's Cross stations in London for assistance.

Then Peterborough and Bury St Edmunds.

BR porters helped with my kit bag at all these stations except for BSE, where I had to carry my own bag whilst on crutches over the barrow crossing at the station....

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

A simple little train before the night shift....

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

Keeping it simple....

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

First outing for the cats, and a loaned Locomotive...

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

And now for the big uns'

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

 

[lgbmad]

As Bob Ross would say.......Happy little clouds.......lovely railway.
Kev

 

[FatherMcD]

As Bob Ross would say.......Happy little clouds.......lovely railway.
Kev

Well, Paul, congratulations on going international! For those of you over the pond, the Woodlock line is featured in the 2025 Garden Trains Annual by Whiteriver Productions in a nice four page spread.

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

 

[duncan1_9_8_4]

No incentive to get the trains out as it's just depressingly dull. So half hour with some cement and some rocks to give the railway a bit of depth. Rockery plants tomorrow all being well.

 

[dunnyrail]

No incentive to get the trains out as it's just depressingly dull. So half hour with some cement and some rocks to give the railway a bit of depth. Rockery plants tomorrow all being well.
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Have you been raiding your personal quarry again? Must admit when I lived in Horbury Bridge finding rocks in sundry places was a happy experience, oh and scale sized 0 gauge ballast.