Probably the longest period ever on the H&DLR with neither a post nor indeed any trains moving. It seems to have been a long winter; normally that doesn't stop the trains, but this time it has. In better news, track cleaning and repairs have started.
Blackbirds and no doubt other creatures have been scraping back the earth on the bank in search of food, with the consequence that the track has literally disappeared in some places.
But in an encouragement to press forwards, a locomotive ordered 15 months ago has finally arrived.
It's a model of the East German V 10C locomotive, built in large numbers for industrial railways in a variety of gauges. Märklin have just released the outside frame version, in the blue livery of the Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn.
More to follow when trains can actually get all the way round the track again!
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