The Layout Part Two – The Setting for Hintock

DSCN3433 Setting for Hintock

3433 SR local passenger train from Yeovil runs into Hintock passing Hintock Dairies.

The setting for Hintock: The period is the 1930’s, the time a beautiful English summer’s day. All is tranquil at Hintock and in the Vale of Hintock, Dorset.

Hintock Redux, though more commonly known as Hintock, is a market town in the Vale that is bounded to the north by the Dorset Downs, to the south the English Channel, east is Dorchester and the west, Devon. [Continue Reading…]

Hintock Branch Videos – Southern Railway

Our inaugural YouTube video featured a Great Western Railway (GWR) train pulling into Hintock Station. You can see it here, another blog post. Now we have another Hintock Branch video. If you’ve been reading about Hintock Branch on the site, you’ll know that it is unusual in that Hintock Branch is a station on a line shared by two railway companies GWR and the Southern Railway (SR). In the video below, we provide equal time to both railway companies with a video of a train of the SR arriving in Hintock Station.[Continue Reading…]