Andrew

Just found this photo in the archives: "King William IV" on a milk and parcels train, probably in the early 1960s when the Kings had been relegated to less exciting duties.

Back to business, and an early morning civil engineers train led by a Class 66 awakens the inhabitants of Sycamore Manor and Sycamore Cottage:

Three new DGR videos Joshua Barker has produced three excellent videos featuring different locos and shot in Dorking last summer. I've added links here, but they (and more) are also on his Cozmictracks website: https://www.youtube.com/user/Cozmictracks. This more than makes up for my own failure to compile any videos recently. These feature: my West Country engine "Ottery St. Mary": https://youtu.be/Yqpy4UmrWSg a visiting Class 67 in DB Schenker "maple leaf" livery on a charter relief train: https://youtu.be/lIzxE5Ku4T8 and Josh's DCC sound-fitted "Tornado" with a train of Pullman cars: https://youtu.be/QlzvhKzcsJs

Definitely not the DGR Two days ago I was fortunate once again to visit Philip's superb 0 gauge railway in Winchester. The session was devoted to running late C19th to early C20th American trains, mostly scratch built coaches and wagons and heavily modified proprietary locos. The railway creates a great atmosphere of big coal-fired railroading, centered around and beyond Chicago, just a decade or two after Huckleberry Finn. Enjoy the pictures, as I enjoyed the day.