On video: Introducing Coalbridge Street…
I suppose it was the deadline of being ready for the book launch next weekend that gave me the final push, but I’m glad it has - for whilst there are still things I could do, details I’d like to finesse, the bulk of the work is complete - so let me introduce Coalbridge Street… For regular readers the back story should need no introduction - technically a shelf cameo layout, the third in the Pont-y-dulais trilogy. A ‘ten minute shelf’ set in the 1970s, New England. Beyond the physical though, the scene is a window into the former Wantage Terminal, a little known shortline, running between the towns of Ballard and Wantage . Bankrupt in the early 60s and reborn as the Ballard and Wantage, the former lines GE45t got us running. However Claremont and Concord 16 leaves an un-answered question… History records that she was moved on from the Pinsly shortline in 1973 - so did the B&W buy it, or is the B&W a Pinsly line itself? There are of course shades of the prototype...