Wath Yard

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:57 am

While reseaching Annesley I found some info on Wath yard, how far is it from Annesley and is there a 8H 0-8-4 kit avalable?

61650GTFC · Post by **61650GTFC** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:10 am

I think you can get a kit of the Wath Daisy 0-8-4 fom Gladiator in 0 gauge. Little engines do some large lner tanks like a T1 4-8-0 so they may be worth a look.

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:11 pm

Ah sorry forgot to mention Im in 00 but could you imagine the size of a 0 guage Wath yard lol Ill go and see if I can buy a feild lol

61650GTFC · Post by **61650GTFC** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:28 pm

lol. You get the field and Ill build the tank engine. Iv'e got an EM1 too. All we need is a few hundred wagons and someone to build the track. I think we should go for finescale hand built. Should only take 50 years or so for me to do it.

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:47 am

Ill try and get some Imortallity pills lol. We've got to have some 9fs though Ill get looking for a feild

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:07 pm

Wath yard was between Doncaster and Barnsley, needless to say its all gone now.

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:30 pm

Maybe we could build the model on the original site, whats there now?

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:50 pm

Don`t know whats there now, a trading estate probably,

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:01 am

Isn't everything now either that or a Supermaket or Car Park

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:07 am

The engine shed at Barnsley is now a Tescos can you believe,

Post by **richard** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:50 pm

Or a high security prison!
Eg. Whitemoor near March (Cambridgeshire).

Arms factories and dumps seem to have a more colourful later life. The Thorpe Arch complex (near Wetherby) is now partly trading estate / retail park (eg. furniture stores - each in its own bunker). The rest is taken up by the British Library. It is where they keep all their periodicals, journals, etc amongst other things.

The arms store along the old Oxford-Cambridge line near Lordsbridge (just west of Cambridge city) is now a radio telescope complex. The dishes of the Ryle Telescope are routed on the track bed of the O-C line, and some of the bunkers still survive. The experimental COAST telescope is mainly in a small bunker - I know because I had a tour around the place shortly after they started COAST operations

Richard

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:51 am

Bristol Bath Road another example of supermaket

keithp · Post by **keithp** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:22 am

Ah Whitemoor, its not that long ago that I worked trains in and out of here when it was good old British Rail, believe it or not the signalling infrastructure for the closed Spalding bit was still in place as far as Twenty Foot River signalbox ( far end of Norwood Yard ) till nearly the end as far as I remember

Tom Quayle · Post by **Tom Quayle** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:02 pm

Formar Barrow 11A (my home town) is now the base for a Scrap Merchent and the dock system is a shadow of its forma self

x568wcn · Post by **x568wcn** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:49 pm

On the subject of Thorpe Arch near Wetherby, I work at Tockwith just down the road, we're on the old air filed, and one of our sites is the store for the Green Goddesses!

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