Last weekend I set up the layout to test out the new fiddle yard, and then ended up playing trains a little! So captured on an overcast day in June 1976 a BR Blue western is captured running a short parcels into Charlton. This truncated SR branchline in North Devon somehow escaped being a victim of the Beaching Axe, although the branchline was effectively halved in the length. The remaining half into Barnstaple gained a late reprieve, with a healthy level of goods and parcels traffic on the short branchline still in the 1970s. More work has recently progressed on the layout and I am feeling happy with how it is all progressing. It really helps to see it all working and it provides some impetus to get it finished!
Evenings parcels service runs into Charlton.
The Western uncoupled moves over the points to run around the train.
Western running around around the short loop.
Buffering back up, ready to head back to Barnstaple and then onto Exeter.
And back to Barnstaple the parcels service heads.
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