Just a short post today; the next instalment of our 32mm scale project, and a trip to the ever-brilliant Poppleton Community Railway Nursery in York for plants.
We've been coming here for nearly a decade, off and on. It's a former British Rail, before that British Railways, before that London-North-Eastern-Railway, plant nursery. Here, they once grew the flowers and greenery which would be despatched to stations all over the network. In later years it fell into ruin, before being resurrected by a volunteer group who are bringing it back to life bit by bit, every year.
We needed some plants for the garden line, and what better than a garden centre which has a working narrow gauge railway running around the place?
As I say, we've been coming here for years. I'd heard about this place years ago, and visited with Younger Child on something of a whim. An afternoon of cake and plants did the trick, we've been back pretty much every year excepting the Plaguey Times.
So yes; another piece in the mag, albeit one with no actual modelling. We planted up a lot of what we bought here on the visit, there's still more awaiting the Spring and the finalising of the scenic work. Should be some actual model-making coming up soon, we've just nailed 4 projects in the last fortnight, which should be coming up some time soon.
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