OK technically it's a diorama, which I did as a quick and dirty entry into my local model club's monthly competition... but it could run with power supplied to the track! The loco is a 'Hornet' resin kit from Black Dog Mining Co, which includes the driver (although I put a better head on him, as the supplied one made him look like Freddy Kruger with a hangover). I also fitted it with a Tenshodo WB31 motor bogie, the idea being that I would have it running as an end to end on the pipe factory exchange siding in my garden line. The appalling weather unfortunately killed that idea, but I like the notion of Gn15 as a modelling scale. The diorama itself is a base of expanded polystyrene packing material, with a lump of Peco 00 track. The rest is basically odds and sods from my modelling inventory.
Many thanks for all your kind comments. I have just managed to upload a couple more photos to show some slightly different angles: Hope you enjoy these
Great photos Clive. It reminds me of a loco that used to be stabled at a sewage works in Brimington near Chesterfield where I live. The loco has been preserved at the Midland Railway Centre at Ripley in Derbyshire on the Golden Valley narrow gauge line. I reckon it would make a quirky theme for a layout, you could even give it an extra unusual element with smelly vision/scratch and sniff cards Pete.