Whitehouse's Railway

Whitehouse's Railway is the 3rd episode of the Fourth series of Miniature Railway Adventures. It was written in 2018 by Michael White.

Plot
Lady Grange is in pieces and Corps ponders on how to fix her. But thoughts were focussed on another issue at the railway which has no answers. Whitehouse and Casey have not been seen that much at the railway and at times Whitehouse is late bringing the coaches to the platform. Stephen spots a trespasser sneaking off into the undergrowth near the walled garden. He follows the figure to a small shed hidden in the woods. The figure is actually Whitehouse who is busy building a model railway as a present for the chairman for when the railway closes. The layout is a miniature version of the railway and he had spent all his spare time working on it. But Stephen reminds Whitehouse of the time to which he hurries to arrange the coaches for the first train. He arrives late and shunts the coaches behind Green Knight, forgetting to uncouple. Too late, both Whitehouse and Puffa are dragged along the line by Green Knight and only go as far as the workshops before the situation was noticed. Puffa's brakes are worn down after trying to stop the train.

Suddenly an explosion is heard not too far from the railway. Stephen reports it came from the woods, which worries Whitehouse as that is where his model railway is. To his dismay, the construction for the new bypass has already left it's mark as his shed where he kept the layout is destroyed to make way. Whitehouse later explains to the chairman about the layout and why it had made him late in his work. However, unlike the chairman, Casey is not so forgiving and states that Whitehouse should have focussed on his work that fooling about. The others then question where he had been to which Casey explains that he's bought a new engine and Grinder and Gears are delivering it for him.

Charlie informs them that Grinder and Gears are waiting by the station, to which Casey happily escorts the group to show off his new engine..

Trivia

 * Like the author, Whitehouse shares the same hobby in railway modelling.
 * In real life, a model layout of the Model Engineers Society was originally planned by Michael White, but has not made much progress.