New Brewery Siding

When we first created the Gunness Brewery, several years ago now, we only allowed for one siding and, since then, have often wished that we had created a second one for the storage of extra wagons and / or a brewery shunter.

Although, to be honest, in the beginning we only ever thought that there would be a couple of wagons serving the brewery at any one time and that it was never likely to have its own allocated shunter.

Well, times have changed and we now have a rake of nine Oakhill Brewery wagons and, well, you have to do something while you are furloughed, so I decided that now was as good a time as any to install that second siding.

The photograph, below, shows how the brewery looked, when first constructed, and with its single siding:

While the following photographs show it as it is now, with the second siding installed and, I hope you will agree, looking much better too.

You will also note that there are a couple of the Oakhill wagons in the new siding plus the brewery seems to have acquired its own shunter in the form of a Hornby 'Ruston & Hornsby' 48DS plus Flatbed Wagon - Catalogue Nº R3707.

This will, eventually, have a sound decoder fitted with Stay-alive as I would like to use it without the flat wagon.

The next three photos show the little loco in better detail.