The Buffers

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Founded by  Les Torrens    (1923 - 2000)

Established in 1982, the Buffers is a group of  transport enthusiasts living in Southern Ontario, which meets for their enjoyment of British railway and other transport modelling.

Picture Gallery - Didcot

A variety of locomotoves and freight stock at the Didoct Railway Centre in the mid 1980's. ( photographs by Geoff Chandler )

1  Outside the sheds at Didcot in the Mid-eighties. Ex GWR Castle Class number 5051 Earl Bathurst, together with Consolidation 2-8-0 number 3822.

2   A Hawkesworth - designed coach atached to a GWR Royal Mail vehicle.

3   An Express Dairy six-wheeled vacuum fitted milk tank.

4   A variety of goods stock. Note the coaling facility behind. Barely visible in the background is the towers of Didcot Power station.

Picture Gallery - Toddington

Thirty years seperate these two pictures, the locations being a very short distance apart.

An 0-4-0 industrial locomotive retired from Cadbury's Bourneville works is shown sitting at Toddington on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Rwy. in 1985. (Photo Geoff Chandler.)

In the mid fifties, a British Railways  modified Hall Class bult 1949/50, number 7918 Rhose Wood Hall is running south towards Cheltenham near Toddington on a Wolverhampton to West of England service. The locomotive's original Hawkesworth tender has been replaced with a standard GWR type. (PhotoGeoff Chandler.)

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