Can I play too please ?

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
... look forward to the back stories, shortbread and music too!
If we carry on like that then the someone will start to sell tickets for the Ceilidh... and with the Crab and Winkle influence appearing then maybe we ought to ask The Oyster Band to open with "Bonnie Susie Clelland".

regards, Graham
 

marsa69

Western Thunderer
With all this talk of back of the class and how much room there is here does this mean im slowly moving forwards to the middle or is it wishfull thinking:confused::))

Wishful thinking mate. we've had an extension built on the fire escape to cope with the amount of tiffin the Colonel goes through. So you've either sat still or been pushed further back in the rush for the front :p
 

Colin M

Western Thunderer
Welcome Stuart, from an Blue interloper, sitting firmly at the back of the class... it's where the cool kids hang out. :)
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
If we carry on like that then the someone will start to sell tickets for the Ceilidh... and with the Crab and Winkle influence appearing then maybe we ought to ask The Oyster Band to open with "Bonnie Susie Clelland".

regards, Graham

THERE:p
 

stuartp

Active Member
Come on Stuart more pics pls

Go on then, you've twisted my arm...

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My ropey trackwork doesn't look too bad until you photograph it from this angle. There is a cunning plan to do something about it involving a large bag of C&L bits. One day ...

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Stranraer's 46467 pauses by the water tank. The original was at Sorbie and is a 1920s replacement for the WR's original wooden one. The WR's wooden water towers were quite photogenic but I doubt they would have survived until the 1960s. In any case, largely thanks to Jamie (South By Southwest) of this parish I operate an 'anti-shortbread' policy preferring rural grot to Grannie's Heilan' Hame (or lowlan' Hame for that matter). The signals are Ratio placeholders, some proper G&SWR ones courtesy of MSE/51L await their turn on the bench. The branch leading off left behind the signalbox (Crossmichael) leads down to the harbour and the enigmatic Hawkshaw Estate Tramway.

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Gratuitous Brian Monaghan-esque helicopter shot showing the rather cramped location the layout currently resides in. The two Palvans sitting in the Tramway Company's exchange siding are waiting to be tripped down to Glenn-Campbell Shortbread Ltd on South Street by whatever ramshackle motive power the HET is currently borrowing (well all that shortbread had to go somewhere). Some sort of half built East Anglian NPCCS vehicle appears to have wandered into the yard.

More later, and hopefully a bit more variety than what happened to be sitting on the layout at the time. Apart from being cramped and badly lit, photography is frequently stymied by the fact that my 4 yr old's room is next door, and he doesn't need any excuse to get out of bed to see what all the clumping about is !

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For Dave and Ian. :)
 

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Nice layout plan. You've also captured the sparseness of the area with the low scenery.

The building in the last picture is worth modelling:) . Put it on a layout and no-one will believe it exists.

The other place I think would be nice to model would be the Garlieston harbour branch - an excuse to have Clyde Puffer:D .
 
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