Thanks! I’m thinking that the railway got them cheap from a local builder after one of the many colonial lines closed before they could be delivered. The directors liked the livery so much that they stuck with it for other items of rolling stock too (yet to be built!)
Oh it’s been horrific! I’ve managed to have a few years where it hasn’t really affected me, but this year it’s all come back with a vengeance.Andrew wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:32 pmYou have my sympathy! I cut the grass last night, knowing that I'd be working in the garden this evening and thinking that I'd avoid the worst of the pollen that way, but it was still pretty bad at times...RobRossington wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:02 pm Unfortunately I’m hiding indoors at the moment due to hay fever!
I did manage to get outside for an hour or so on Thursday evening though. It was enough to run a couple of trains and do a Coal run with No. 3;
The coal wagon is the only survivor of the railways original batch of wooden four wheelers. It’s an internal user only wagon these days, and very rarely leaves the station limits at Charlwood. When it’s getting a little low on coal though, and needs topping up, It gets shunted over to the goods siding.
Running round the lone wagon;
The furthest up the line the wagon ever goes;
Safely deposited in the goods siding. It’ll be loaded up, and then moved back over by one of the diesels in the morning.