Bonds at the Rocks By Rail Museum!

A slight play on words there in case anyone thinks that the latest James Bond film is featuring a scene at the Rocks By Rail Museum. We did however have an operating day today and a good show was put on for those who visited. Our guests included the Bond Owners Club. The Club is centered around the Bond Minicars of the 1950s and 60s and I can do no better than direct anyone to their website if he pictures below make you curious about these wonderfully characterful cars. Click here to go to the Bond Owners Club.

We did have steam running for the brake van rides complete with what the suppliers claimed was smokeless coal!

With the Jubilee celebrations going on even the Museum was decked out.

OK it may not have been elaborate but we tried!

This mornings bike ride and this afternoons drive home revealed these gems of creativity for the Jubilee.

Maybe he is saluting because he thinks I am James Bond...........

  

Jubilee!

Well today is the day we celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of the Queen. 70 years on the throne and for most of the Country we have known no one else as the Head of State. Lots of celebrations around the Country with things like this being done in a local village.

Even the crows at the back of WMD HQ seemed to be getting into the spirit with this gathering and lots of crow type chatter.

Model making wise not much done but I did think it appropriate to dig out my Hornby Royal Train Pack bought back in 2004 and I am sorry to say never run yet. That will change soon but I will either have to DCC chip the loco which was never designed for DCC or find by DC controller and see if that will work. The pack was released by Hornby in 2004 after the the Queen and Prince Philip carried out a train tour of the UK in the summer of 2002 with the loco in the pack being the one that hauled the train.

The loco is a Coronation Class LMS 4-6-2 named Duchess of Sutherland and despite being nearly 20 years old is nicely detailed..

Carriages are models of those in the actual train and I do have the extension pack with another three carriages somewhere which will make it a great looking train. Just hope I get to actually run this before the next jubilee!