For reference books and articles relating to these pages, see our bibliography
Are you getting tired of looking at trains? Try the Mad Toy Collector's exhibition, or visit The Heraldry Guy!
Searching for a particular topic in these pages? Try our subject index (updated continually)
It's all being made into a serialized movie! Click here to watch the movie episodes!
Go to the Next Plate Go to the Previous Plate Go to the Numerical Plate Directory

Plate 140:  Building a locomotive service yard, Part 6:  something has been removed...and added
(This plate added OCT 2003)

In Plate 127 we mentioned that a switching locomotive would be employed to move uncoupled cars into a "car yard", and in Plate 135 we had our first view of the newly-obtained switching locomotive. Here we see the new locomotive posing on one of the spur tracks of the locomotive service yard. However, although we have added a locomotive to the "stable", we have lost a spur track!

--more--
The layout designer decided that purchases of new locomotives will be "few and far between" (locomotives are fairly big budget items), so that a three-spur service yard was unnecessary at this time. Therefore, as you can see in the photo, a spur track has been removed, freeing a spur-switch for other immediate purposes.

The new locomotive is a Hornby R2335 "BR 0-4-0ST Pug". The meaning of this name is explained in the next plate (Plate 141).

Go to top of page