Timeless Pont Dulas...
Timeless. Not todays picture, that is very much of a time - rather the scene sans train. You see here in Wales our country branches, those few that survived the car and later, Beeching, have changed little in other ways...
Trees still look like trees, embankments perhaps more overgrown today but those lines of fence posts tracing the landscape through which the steel ribbons wind their way home still carry wire, tension and the hope that they'll stop sheep on the line.
Until next time, more soon...
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Very nicely done. The vegetation is far worse these days, and a lot of work is ongoing to try to tackle that in future years, but to get back to this would be nirvana frankly. Do you need a height warning on the bridge for lorries?
ReplyDeleteThanks Colin!! I was pondering the bridge yes. The problem is it's really set in the 1950s - perhaps I could do one that blu-taks in place?!
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ReplyDeleteThe layout is really nice and it is impressive that you can move from steam to diesel and still have an authentic feel. I guess that changes come more slowly away from the big towns and are more subtle so we can move the time frame without wholesale change to our models. I have found that with my modelling of a “backwoodsy” shortline in the Pacific Northwest, where just changing some vehicles and other details can credibly move the layout from say 1960 to 2016.
One thing that keeps hitting every time I see it ( and nothing really to do with modelling) is the Arriva livery on the rolling stock. I worked for Arriva in the 2000’s when the company moved from car dealerships towards being a transport provider. When I joined the blue/stone paint scheme and the “wheel within wheel” logo and the new name was coming into use. Back then (2000) it was just a bus company and the new livery was being applied quickly to buses across the country – although my company being the London subsidiary our buses were always kept in LT red!!. Trains did not become part of the business for a few years after that (and we had a few rocky moments). I was not really involved with that side of the business, although I did attend a few meeting with the FD of Arriva Trains Wales. However that now seems a time ago.
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Alan
Thank you Alan. I think you have a good point about being away from ‘the smoke’ - something I’m keen to explore further, and I’m glad my models are evoking memories beyond the model. This hobby, this art form goes beyond the rails.
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