Our favourite 009 views

[pilotfriend]

That is very kind of you Ted. I love that last shot of yours.
JdF

[tedp]

Thanks, John. I can still recreate this view as the layout hasn't changed... well, perhaps it should be patched up a little. And the loco and carriage still exist in active service.

[invercloy]

I'm sorry Ted, I can't resist posting this...

I was 1 when you took that photo!  :P BUT it's the one image that sparked my interest in the C&DR, and more serious 009 modelling when I saw it in the centre of the Peco Modeller Book of Narrow Gauge.

[tedp]

Thanks, Tom - although it makes me feel VERY OLD!   ;D

Funny to realise I was about 35 at the time I took the photo.

[MickT]

Well I was even older than that, (Invercloy's or TedP's ages? not too difficult to work out but I'm admitting nothing) but it was also the photo that rekindled my own interest in 009, which had been a feature in my hobbies for some years before the Peco Modeller Book of Narrow Gauge, but the C&DR and in particular that photo fanned the embers enough for me to become one of the if not the founder members of the C&DR anorak and appreciation society (UK Chapter).  ::)

Mick

[Tigger]

It's an excellent photo Ted, of a lovely scene.  (From someone who was a mere 26 when it was taken!  [And still I feel old!])

Hmm...  Thinks "My own railway was celebrating its 10th anniversary that year..."

I thoroughly agree with you about John's Bratton Fleming; It's superb and I was astounded when I saw it at Chatham last year.  Of the many photos I took this is the best; I think I've posted it before but what the heck?  I've been thinking of repeating it here and you've given me the perfect excuse!  Definitely a favourite layout view, even more so because it was taken with the little Canon Ixus under exhibition conditions and not posed in any way.

John - I'm looking forward to you finishing Cliffhanger under snow at one end and in summer sunshine at the other! ;D

[Tigger]

"The loco was

[pilotfriend]

"John - I'm looking forward to you finishing Cliffhanger under snow at one end and in summer sunshine at the other!"

In your dreams Tigger .............. in your dreams ;D

[Tigger]

SPOILSPORT!! ;D