Model Trains and Things

I got my licence and my first car in 1967 and by 1968 I was spending some Saturday afternoons out at Enfield. In those days a public road ran beside the loco depot - and a dirt track led off the road and down to a couple of small industries so that you could actually legally get quite close to the coaling stage.

We’ll get to the coaling stage later in the week but for now let’s start at the overbridge that gave loco crews access from the road to their sign-on rooms. That’s where this photo of 3809 was taken.

The large building slightly to the left of the 38 is Enfield No 1 Roundhouse. No 2 Roundhouse was behind the tender and slightly to the left of it and No 3 Roundhouse was much further back behind me and to my left.

The concrete foundations to the right of the photo once supported the oil tanks that were used to fuel the oil-fired 55 and 59 class locos.

Away off in the distance, in front of 3809 you can see the track that ran up onto the coaling stage. This track was used to fill the coal bunkers in the stage and nothing heavier than a 19 or 30 class ever went up there.

Locos coming in from a day’s work ran down where 3809 is and then down to the coal stage to fill their tenders. From there they ran up to an elevated ash pit behind the coaling stage where they dropped what remained of their fires and then drifted down to whichever roundhouse they were to be stabled in.

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