Fancy a weekday short term clean job?

The Admin Office has noticed an increase in the volume of phone calls they are receiving and they are looking to "recruit" a number of individuals that can sit in a clean, warm environment and answer the phone, please, for which full training will be given. As this is entirely due to the Santa bookings it very definitely has a finite end to it but, at present, the staff in the Office (both paid and unpaid) are being diverted from their own tasks to take badly needed bookings.

If you can help, and wish to enjoy a draught free, dry, warm environment with a kettle nearby then why not give Admin a call on 01296 655720. In an ideal world we need 5 people to do 1 day a week.

Tim says "I'll probably regret this later..."

"What might he regret?" I hear you ask. Well, Tim has made some additions to the online stockbook that he runs on our behalf and is seeking comments, updates and advice but I am jumping the gun a bit, lets go back to the start. I quote Tim's original email to Bob Frise and I a couple of weeks ago:

"In a few idle moments in the last couple of weeks I have been making various updates to the stockbook website.

"Visitors"

I have started a new section to cover visitors to Quainton - intended to cover both visitors to the actual site (like the Rocket reconstruction) and railtours etc that have called at the station since we've taken over. So far I have picked out various visitors from Quainton News and my memory (and added links to Bob Frise's Railtours website). I know I am missing some visitors, but cannot find reference in the QN's I have to hand - any help gratefully received. For instance, what BR locos pulled the stock deliveries to site back in the early '70's?

Railway Plant

I have started to add major railway plant to the miscellaneous section - water towers, turntables, etc. Any additional details on other large plant would be useful. Again I have found some details in old QN's, but not got all the details yet.

P Way Trollies

This was one of the areas I chickened out of when I originally set the site up a few years back. Now I have put up entries on the website with photos of what I hope are 4 different manual P Way trollies:
Pwaytrolley1: As far as I understand it this is the partner to the powered trolley TP53P
Pwaytrolley2: I have no details of this one at all
Pwaytrolley3: The photo is of a rather battered looking one outside - but is it in fact the one inside as Pwaytrolley2?
Pwaytrolley4: This one with a rather Heath Robinson-ish construction on top - what is it?

Of course, in fact there may be more manual pway trollies - they seem to proliferate!
So any help anyone can give would be gratefully received. The site is now up to a little short of 300 pages of information, with about 40MB of data. As I plough through all the old QN's I've recently pulled out of storage it will grow further.

From a personal perspective I believe Tim's stockbook is by far the most comprehensive of any on the 'net - most railways, if they list a stockbook, just do the diesels and merely add "XX coaches and YY wagons". Tim has created a wonderful resource to which I regularly refer but it can only be as good as the info supplied so if you know of any nuggets that he has missed drop him a line just don't expect to see it immediately in print as he lives near Banbury and works around Milford Haven!!

The stockbook can be viewed at www.brc-stockbook.co.uk If you haven't seen it - go and have a look!

Notes:
The text in this Quainton Railway Society publication was written in 2009 and so does not reflect events in the 5+ years since publication. The text is repeated verbatim from the original publication, with only a few minor grammar changes but some clarifying notes are added if deemed necessary.

Reference:
Quainton Email Letter 17.11.09