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Next day, the dynamic duo visited the Seaton tramway. This is still on my bucket list! Another photo dump follows.

Whilst I have been languishing about with a broken shoulder, Allan and Derek visited the Swanage railway for the Bachmann members day. Looks like a lot of fun, and the star of the show was predictably the beautiful T3 4-4-0, as the day’s announcement was an OO model in the EFE range. Below is a photo dump!

Still on the way home….

Eastleigh…..

Southampton….

And Brockenhurst.  The last photo is where there was a swing bridge across the track to platforms 1 and 2 to transfer parcels.

That’s this tip posted.  Next stop, TINGS with NCI.

Small trains – a visit to the Moors Valley Railway.

On way home met up with family and visited country park with railway

Sean’s back….

And even smaller trains

Real railways for the final post from this trip.

And the rest of the buses.

There’s nothing like an old open-topper (unless it’s snowing.)  A Southern Vectis Bristol K5G dating from 1940.

Three generations of front-engine single deckers.  I have a soft spot for the older versions, though I’m not convinced by that narrow-gauge one!  A 1934 Dennis Ace, a 1949 Bedford OB, and a 1985 Ford Transit.

A classic AEC Matador service vehicle.  How many OO layouts have had conversions of the British Army version on their roads?

Upstairs, downstairs, on a Bristol ‘Lodekka’.

Some older vehicles…  A 1957 Bedford SB3 with a lovely Duple Vega body, the rear of a 1956 open top Bristol ‘Lodekka’.  A 1956 Bristol MW6G single decker, some front ends, and some rear ends….

And some needing a lot of TLC….  a 1927 Daimler CK rescued from duty as a garden shed.

Still more delights to come, as Allan and Ron wend their way home.

Looks like Day 4 may take two posts…..

Overcast turning sunny with a fresh breeze. Visited IOW bus museum. Afterwards bus via Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor and Godshill to Newport. Onward to Alum Bay via Yarmouth returning to Newport via Freshwater Bay and Brighstone. Then back to Ryde by bus.

A little more tourism from the top deck of the bus….

And waiting outside the museum….  Left to right, a 1993 open-topped Leyland Olympian, a mystery item, a Bristol VRT from 1973 and a 1962 Bristol ‘Lodekka’.

A wet year seems to have germinated all sorts of things in this bus! 

Rest of the buses next time.

Trains today!

Hot and sunny. Spent day on Isle of Wight Steam Railway

Arriving at Haven Street.

On the line.  These Ivatt 2-6-2T locos were considered as replacements for the O2’s, so are quite appropriate for an IOW railway.

In the yard.  Spot the lurking ‘Shark’.

Best of the best.  The remaining member of the O2 class 0-4-4T that ran the railway from the 1930’s.

Second best?  One of the Island Terriers in the museum.

The carriage works.  A real labour of love restoring beach huts and chicken coops into pre-grouping coaches.  The little four-wheelers are some of the original coaches on the island.

Ryde Pier trams.

And other exhibits.

Next time, we are back on the buses!