Wow! Those two weeks just whizzed by. There is a lesson here
for next time. The place we wanted to stay was booked for the weekends but had
free space Monday to Friday. So we decided to book it and find alternative
accommodation for the following week, Friday to Friday. The problem with this
idea is that three of the days were taken up travelling. We were only away for
twelve days so that left nine, Three of them were spent avoiding the torrential
rain, and another couple resting after long drives with Mum. Now we are down to
four days. We made use of the time but I must admit, it could have been planned
better. Next year we will book two weeks in one place! Tonight, My brother repatriated Mum to
Kent this evening, after consuming large quantities of our meagre food supply, so now the holiday is really over.
The upshot of all the mucking about and inclement weather was there was little time to get out
and about photographing possible modelling subjects with the exception of one
brief stop at Dunkield Railway station, on the way back from a visit to the
Pitlochry salmon ladder – Google it! The station was originally the terminus of
the Perth and
Dunkield Railway in 1856 and later became a trough station when it was
absorbed by of the Inverness and Perth
Junction Railway in 1863. I think it would make a nice subject for a
modern-image layout as it still has a couple of sidings, a signal box,
semaphore signal and a passing loop. The permanent way crews use the sidings
for storage of materials and equipment. The line sees all sorts of traffic
including freight and passenger, local and national. Check out Google images
for Dunkield Railway station and you will see what I mean. I liked the
combination of wooden and concrete sleepered track forming the running line and
passing loop respectively.
The rest of the
pictures taken were either for use a reference later or just plain holiday
snaps and not really worthy of being posted here.
Today, have been at
a Meccano meeting (SELMEC). I have made a bit of a rod for my own back by
offering to PAT test the club members gear. I spent another meeting unscrewing
plug tops! I am only going to do it
once a year in future other wise I can see me spending all my time working.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining, I just underestimated how many
members would need gear tested.
Tomorrow I am taking
Sue for a day out at the local sewerage works – See, we know how to live it up!
Ralph.
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