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Saturday 6th – All change, all change

 The first Saturday of the close season, so that means a big shunt to move everything around and make a start on winter maintenance.Of course while having all 26 odd operational carriages at Winchcombe has its benefits, it can get a bit crowded. M…

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New Year

Last year we started January with a summary table of the fleet, which went down well, so we thought we should repeat this. You can compare the situation to last year and most will agree there are only very minor differences.Returning to the workshop, t…

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Thursday 4th – Shutdown kicks off

With more returning after the Christmas-New Year break it was a busy day, with more concentrated effort on Winter maintenance.Walking with Dennis up on to Platform 2, a quick pause to photograph both running rakes in the station. With the end to the ru…

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Wednesday 3rd – Great to be back

 Hi everyone, it’s great to be back after the festive season. To be fair so many did the Santa specials, it must feel to them never ending. We know however the Santa experience was immensely successful .Today we were very few in number for various…

January thinking

 And so to opening again. I closed for the usual annual oh no it’s not season. Either no one comes here anymore or everyone sussed this and (this time) didn’t moan about it. TBH I did consider closing for good, but after six weeks of not touc…

The Summer of regrowth…

It has been a summer of regrowth on Philden Beach. Both literally and metaphorically. Exactly one year after starting down the path of converting my HO scale Australian shelf layout from its former inner-city Melbourne setting to a slice of railfan par…

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Tuesday 2nd – Hello 2024

Happy New Year!Firstly a great big thank you for all the very kind comments received over the past year, especially after Alex’s Roundup of 2023. It’s very heartening to know that all the work we do at C&W and the efforts made to publish our activi…