The sun is out today, finally, and the door from the railway room to the tiny front balcony is open. So I put up a support bench and set up Nixnie in the sun outside, so I could photograph some GVT traffic on Nixnie, using the Fourdees 'Sir Theodore' and the Parkside GVT style stock built recently.
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By the way, the Baldwin in the first photo, which looks at home alongside the GVT stock, was built by Don Sibley and given a new motor and some chassis treatment by myself.
It doesn't like the tight curves on Nixnie but it looks nice shunting in the tiny station. Normally it resides as the colliery shunter on the C&DR.
Excellent Ted! The train suits Nixnie very well and "Sir Ted" looks magnificent in the sunshine!
Mick
Very nice. And of course the GVT did own a Baldwin after WW1...
Good morning Ted, as ever your layout and stock look magnificent, and your on-going reports are as welcome as I remember the updates from the late Peter Denny's Leighton Buzzard, and P.D. Hancocks Craig and Mertonford from the Railway Modeller of my younger years.
You are an inspiration to us all, and long may it continue.
Kind regards, BrianT.
Very nice, Ted - and you can't beat real sunlight for taking photos, I guess! - makes all the difference.
David.