Diesel Report 1 - July 2024

[@KevorkKewanian]

Great video Simon, a diesel report sounds like a great idea. It's good to report current rail movements and activities within Reading and Twyford. The rail tours were very interesting and it's nice to see older classes of diesel on the mainline. I've noticed a train on your Facebook page that you were curious about, well I reckon it is another track maintenance unit possibly for cleaning weed and leaves on the line. A couple of days ago, I invited my friends over to my place and we made a diorama for the upcoming Awdry extravaganza at the Talyllyn Railway in Wales. The scene we created was from the story super rescue from the book Enterprising Engines written by the Rev W Awdry in 1968. It was great fun to make and we all enjoyed every moment of it, now it has been sent to Wales it will be on the event's Livestream! I hope you will like it too. Keep your steam up Simon. Take care Kevig

[@SimonsTrainAdventures]

Thanks for watching. The Awdry Extravaganza sounds amazing. We’ve never been to the Talyllyn Railway but it is top of our list when we’re next in Wales.

[@YoGemmy]

Cool new series! I like it.

[@SimonsTrainAdventures]

Thanks!

[@georgethomas7814]

Well done .... i hope the rain didn't dampen the spirits. It would be so good to model that four track cutting on a layout. Maybe over the top of your storage tracks. The train movements including the special tour trains could be included in a running session. I liked the top and tail units and the light engine movements. both elements are not duplicated in model railways.

[@SimonsTrainAdventures]

I think I read in Railway Modeller about a year ago that someone had built a huge and very detailed model of Sonning Cutting, which included that bridge. A good idea to run those formations on the model railway. We might do some of that in our next running session!

[@georgethomas7814]

@@SimonsTrainAdventures Think I found it: JOHN SOUTHERN'S MODEL OF READING STATION AND SONNING CUTTING A SCALE 1 8 MILES!

[@SimonsTrainAdventures]

@@georgethomas7814 That sounds like the right thing. It looks incredible. And John Southern was the guy that built Dobwalls Family Adventure Park in Cornwall, which was an enormous 7.25" American Railroad based theme park. I used to love that as a child. It was a staple of our family holidays in the 90s. Very sad it no longer exists as I would have loved to take Simon.