Collett Class 2884 (unless someone knows better)

As fine a May Bank holiday as we’ve had. Warm sunshine, lovely weather, just right for staying local and not joining an exodus to the coast.

Instead of a Monday morning at the allotment I worked in the garden, planting tomatoes into their final pots abs setting them out in the greenhouse. Much later this year than previous years.

We followed a bit of a garden safari this afternoon admiring some 20 front gardens which had been entered the Bearsted in Bloom competition. A good antidote to noticing all the less interesting front “gardens” which resemble car parks with little in the way of plants.

We ended up at the Maidstone Model Engineering Society in Mote Park who we’re running trains for the first time in ages over the weekend. It’s a model of a GWR Collett 2884 class 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive built between 1938-41 as an improvement to Churchwards 28xx locos built in the early years of the 20th C. So there was no competition for today’s blip.