Tag: Waverley Route
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Weekend at Whitrope
A truly massive weekend of productivity occurred at Whitrope last weekend as a large crew and excellent weather combined to ensure conditions were just right for work, if slightly warm! Mike at Cumbria Lift and Shift helped greatly with his Palfinger equipped flatbed truck, not only delivering our new ground frame on Saturday but assisting…
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Waverley Route Artwork
My friend Iain MacIntosh is working on another of his excellent pencil drawings. This one, like the last is of a Gresley V2 class, but this time on a Waverley Route passenger working. Iain’s work goes from strength to strength and this looks like being even better than his previous production. Whilst Iain hasn’t confirmed…
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The Waverley Spring
Today, I spent the day driving my friend Iain MacIntosh around in the northern part of the Borders and into Midlothian carrying out a photo survey for a new publication. The Railways of Peebles Through Time, which is a joint project with WRHA Chairman Roy Perkins, will be published shortly by Amberley Publishing at £14.99…
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Gresley Butchery
One thing I’ve become somewhat over-interested in of late is more accurate coach formations and I’m also increasingly aware of the limitations of off the shelf products in this respect. Stopping passenger trains on the Waverley were largely composed of Gresley 61′ corridor stock until about 1960 when Mk1 stock began to dominate. Hornby’s Gresley…
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