Hi everyone. Today, being on afternoons again, I decided to have a run around the garden with the 00 gauge. After a good clean of the little tracks, the pleasant midday sun saw a good few trains operating. A first for the railway was the inaugural run of the newest addition: the NRM model of the Ivatt C1 Large Boiler Atlantic. No251 arrived some weeks ago and had yet to be tried and so, with the four LNER Teak Coaches in tow, off she went. Despite being a very new and highly detailed model, I was very surprised at how the Atlantic performed. It is quite weighty - making it strong - and it has a good turn of speed: another pleasing purchase. Also out and about was the stalwart Bachmann Taffe Tank with a mixed train...
Coming around onto the 2006 extension is my Mainline Railways Collett Goods 0-6-0 with a lengthy freight train mainly consisting of private owner wagons...
Another view of the pretty NRM Atlantic on a later run...
The Collett Goods returns to the shed via the north bridge over the access...
Naturally, as per an impromptu running session, the trains ran without the added good looks of the buildings and scenery (there's just no point putting it all out for an hour or twos operation). The trains had however run very well and it was nice to see them reaching the unseen edges of the garden, ducking between the flowerbeds and trees and crossing the alleyway as they do. Now in its tenth year of operation, what started out as a 'test track' in 2005 has become a very reliable little railway that has allowed my fairly extensive 00 gauge fleet of locomotives to blow the cobwebs away on that odd occasion of me having some spare time! All the best guys, Sam...
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