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 Claremont Concord in the setting too, but the industries take their names from the old Wantage Tramway in the UK, as does the route, its roadside tramway nature from the same.

In the video I talk about some of the design and construction elements of the composition- and we see 16 switch Clark’s and the 45t switch Langton’s. It might go on a bit, but I’ve enjoyed re-watching it before publishing this morning. I hope you do to, until next time, more soon…

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