ACT Layout - 0073 - The Llithfaen – Miller Street section of the GWR

ACT - 0073 - Llithfaen - Miller Street - More Information

1 A Tale of Two Panniers - 7402 will add its loaded wagons to the train being assembled for 2865 to collect, and 1823 removes more empties for return. The Wolf and Earl of Westding wait after bringing in the parcels train. The Miller Street yard is pretty full - lots of sheets for the goods porters to handle. The road to the sea is beyond the yard.	2 PC McHugh is considering the legality of a car with just a single headlight, what appears to be the engine in the rear, and foreign registration! - it's a Hanomag. GW lorry load of spuds is waiting for it's driver.	3 The train for The Historic Vehicles Rally is loading - the Stig dresses up to load a '93 Benz, a 1934 Simca rally car, 1912 RR and an early Ford T wait their turns. Llithfaen platform has a Newspaper van unloading.	4 The WTR train pulls in with quite a load in the picnic gondola, and the waiting fancy dress groups wait for them to clear their hampers!
5 Avonside 0-6-0T Great Mountain brings in the output from last night's shift at the Great Mountain colliery. The train passes the cattle dock, a Mink F and a 70' Newspaper Van.	6 Welsh PO wagons and Hornby crane, looking over the yard to The Road to the Coast.	7 1823's driver looks non-plussed at something his fireman has said or done!	8 The witch is ignored by the 'normal' passenger waiting for the local. The witch is waiting, with others, for the Westding Tourist Railway's train to arrive, with coaches booked for the fancy dress party. The WTR's service train waits in the bay.
9 1823, a Wolverhampton product of about 1904 backs the coal empties into Llithfaen yard to go back up the valleys - all belong on the L&MMR, BP&GVR or GVR (see text for names).	10 GWR Bookstall on LLithfaen Station.	11 GWR Pannier Open Cab number 1823	12 Guards vans awaiting their next duties.
13 GWR Deliveries!	14 Fancy dress.	15 Guards Van	16 Busy working day.
17 Llithfaen Station.	18 The parking lot seems full!	19 Llithfaen goods workings including cattle, and, milk cans ready for loading into the 'Siphon' to be attached to the passenger working.	20 45341 shunting it next train.
21 Great Mountain coal train.	22 Collett 0-4-2T working a 'B' Set.	23 The 'B' Set working out of LLithfaen.	24 The 'B' Set working.
25 The o-4-2T and 'B' Set working down the line.	26 A Bulldog meets an Earl - that is locomotive 9009.	27 Locomotive 6720.	28 LMS 4490.
29 British Railways locomotive 45341.