(NSW, Non-Steam Wife) has clearly been generating a lot of traffic to Sentinel 7109. So here's a little posting especially for you!
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| 2011 Greenhouse at Midsomer Norton Station |
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| 1959 (Photo: Eric Rimmer (SDRT Collection) from Alan Hammond's Heart of the Somerset & Dorset Railway) |
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| September 2003 wasteland |
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| October 2005 |
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| June 2006 |
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| January 2007 (with Graeme Mayes perched on the roof) |
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| May 2007 (My name is on one of the roof-tiles as are many others who sponsored the tiles at a pound a time) |
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| June 2008 externally complete but no greenhouse |
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| May 2011 Greenhouse and Signal box complete in all their glory |
nice pix. How amazing that the greenhouse should be restored too when the restorers are really there for the trains!
ReplyDeleteAn original aim of the project has always been to restore the station to its state in 1955. So a greenhouse was definitely needed (as in the 1959 B&W picture).
ReplyDeleteGreat chronology, Andy. You dont see the changes month by month, but your year by year shots remind us what shear hard work and dedication can achieve. As you will, with Joyce. JW
ReplyDeleteLove it that they restored the greenhouses and they are once more full of produce. Welcome to blogging, too, and I hope you'll remember us garden bloggers and provide more interesting tidbits on gardening that somehow relate to steam engines.
ReplyDeleteHighlight of Seattle Fling was meeting NSW aka VP and you both.
I've always been a lifelong aviation enthusiast but as a one time mechanical engineer have always appreciated steam locos, and admire those who spend time preserving them.
ReplyDeleteMy other passion is gardening which is how I've known VP for a few years now.
I've bookmarked this blog to read through earlier, and future, posts which I'm sure I'll find interesting and informative.
Happy steaming, Flighty
Glad to see that VP (sorry NSW) has corrupted you sufficiently that you now have your own blog ;-) I know nothing about steam engines other than I really like them, and hope to one day live in North Wales and travel on the various ones on offer there just as I did as a child. But I do love to see some of our steam heritage being salvaged, and if it comes with a greenhouse and cake, so much the better! Enjoy your blogging adventures.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogosphere - and another local vocal too. I went to the Teifi Valley Railway yesterday with son no3 who never tires of trains.
ReplyDelete1955? As old as I am ;~) What made you chose THAT year? I love using a blog post to document in photos the progress of a project. No more scratching for dates and photos. It is out there, and you can Google it. From (Steam Husband and) another NSW.
ReplyDeleteGreat job. As NSW knows I live 50 yards from the Ffestiniog railway. It's great to see the restored trains going up and down the line. I often wave. (At the passengers that is). No greenhouse at our local station though. Perhaps I ought to suggest it!
ReplyDelete1955 was chosen because it was the S&D in its most interesting state with a family atmosphere amongst employees and all sorts of steam locos being used to try to conquer the steep gradients. As such, it was very popular with railway enthusiasts of the day. It was also just prior to it being run down and starved to final closure in 1966.
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