More maintenance work over the last few days.
A few years ago the village suffered a terrible giant Mouse attack. This caused damage to the roof of the middle terraced house, the unpainted hidden side of one of the shops and the shop front itself. Hungry little dear.
The whole area has been given a good clean, and I’ve made a start on making a pavement. The area is intended to be a courtyard, so there’s no vehicle access. There was originally room for a small road entering bottom left, but I’ve since extended the headshunt. The cut out bit allows the shed door to open fully.
After this was done it was time to run a couple of trains;
‘Eilean Donan’ arrives at Top End with a short engineers train;
And then shunts into the yard to pick another wagon up;
After arriving back at Charlwood, it added another two open wagons to the train;
Before handing the now much heavier train over to LOTI;
With LOTI off on its way, Eileen Donan shuffles off to the shed to drag No.3 out so it can be steamed;
No.3 is seen arriving later on with a very short passenger train (I really need more carriages!);
A bit of shunting to add a van to the train;
After an inspection to try and find the cause of its frequent derailments, one of the bogie opens is dropped off at Top End by No.9, one of the last moves of the day;