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Just lately, I have put on quite a number of what might be called 'boys pictures' from my layout with a bit of technical stuff about trains. This picture, I hope the ladies may enjoy (if I am not being sexist, which is never my intention). Mrs Penriddick lives in the left hand cottage and is married to Driver Penriddick, the senior engineman at Falmouth Junction shed. The other cottage is that of PC Trembath, of Victoria Street Police Station, whose blue-and-white 'Panda' car is parked outside when he is off duty. Strictly, he should park it at the Nick and sign out, but the Chief Super is OK with it. PC Trembath is rich enough to employ a gardener, who can be seen at work on the extreme right. PC Trembath is currently single but is dating a WPC at the main Police station in the City (that's if anyone wants to know).

In the background is Truro (South Western), with the single unit for Malpas in the branch platform. A pannier tank shunts the engineers' sidings. The Scammel lorry, once a regular feature at railway stations in the 1950s and 60s, is returning empty to the parcels office.

The Wallace Arnold coach is a bit out of area but reminds me of a joke that was going around in the 1970s. Wallace Arnold's passengers tended to be of a 'certain age' and legend had it that they had labels tied to them saying: 'If found, please return to Wallace Arnold'. Boy, did we laugh! Now I am that age and it is just not funny any more.....

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Just lately, I have put on quite a number of what might be called 'boys pictures' from my layout with a bit of technical stuff about trains. This picture, I hope the ladies may enjoy (if I am not being sexist, which is never my intention). Mrs Penriddick lives in the left hand cottage and is married to Driver Penriddick, the senior engineman at Falmouth Junction shed. The other cottage is that of PC Trembath, of Victoria Street Police Station, whose blue-and-white 'Panda' car is parked outside when he is off duty. Strictly, he should park it at the Nick and sign out, but the Chief Super is OK with it. PC Trembath is rich enough to employ a gardener, who can be seen at work on the extreme right. PC Trembath is currently single but is dating a WPC at the main Police station in the City (that's if anyone wants to know).

In the background is Truro (South Western), with the single unit for Malpas in the branch platform. A pannier tank shunts the engineers' sidings. The Scammel lorry, once a regular feature at railway stations in the 1950s and 60s, is returning empty to the parcels office.

The Wallace Arnold coach is a bit out of area but reminds me of a joke that was going around in the 1970s. Wallace Arnold's passengers tended to be of a 'certain age' and legend had it that they had labels tied to them saying: 'If found, please return to Wallace Arnold'. Boy, did we laugh! Now I am that age and it is just not funny any more.....