A surprise addition: 08202…
I didn’t mean to create a miniature of 08202. Yes, she lives here (at present, on loan from the Avon Valley), but as a vacuum braked example with the early hinged door she didn’t fit in my Speedlink era collection… However, that was before I found this photo (after seeing something similar on page 94 of Michael Rhodes’s ‘The Railways of South Wales 1975 - 1995, Part 1 - Cardiff and the Valley Lines’). Here 08202 is seen, on loan to the coal board, at Cwmbach , sorry Deep Navigation. The similarity in this almost sylvan scene to how I pictured the yard at Cwmbach is remarkable. Green everywhere, even here is shouldn’t be, ash ballast and rakes of similar but not identical wagons… Hired BR class 08 shunting locomotive number 08202 is seen in action at Deep Navigation Colliery on 7th August 1987 with some HEA wagons. Mike Jones phot o, Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2rLYAXJ Another Farish 08 was sourced, along with a ‘Basra’ body being sold cheaply on eBay. I needed a bodyshell w...
