More Steam

As well as a couple of new diesel locomotives, there has also been the recent addition of two new tank engines to the railway and, as with the majority of the other steam locos that I have, these two have associations with the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway.

The first loco is actually the second Bachmann 3F 0-6-0 'Jinty' to join the fleet (Catalogue Nº 32-233) and, like her sister, she is fitted with a digital decoder but no sound at the moment.

Here both locos are seen at Anchwood with one of them at the head of a passenger train for Gunnmere Junction while the other one is in charge of a local goods train.

The second steam newcomer is this Bachmann Ivatt 2-6-2 Nº 41221, Catalogue Nº 31-450.

These locos were regular performers on the Evercreech Junction to Highbridge branch during the S&D's final years and, indeed, a brace of them (41307 and 41269) hauled one of the last excursions along the branch on Saturday 5th March 1966.

It would be good to run a similarly double-headed train on our branch line one day.