DOYLES JUNCTION

Given the weather . . . more work on Doyles Junction Model Railway . . . from left to right . . . the new Fiddle Yard is added to provide an extension and wagon store . . . the latest locomotive  joins the fleet. This is a 2-6-2 Tank engine. Anorak details below. Finally, Prime Pork buy into the Goods Yard . . .  keep on moving.
Stay safe everyone . . . I have a nasty feeling that life is about to get a lot worse . . . at one time I was  thinking it could all be over soon . . . not a  chance. The population is really dense.
Steaming Info . . .
There are 14 different types of tank locomotive, distinguished by the position and style of the water tanks and fuel bunkers. The most common type has tanks mounted either side of the boiler, as here, with a rear coal bunker. This 2-6-2T locomotive, BR6156, was built in 1933 in Swindon. With a working life based around Southall and Oxford, it was finally withdrawn from service in 1965 and scrapped in Cashmores Yard in Newport, Wales.