47286 pops into Thorne Yaed to run around its rake of tanks as 20144 shunts the departmental stock and cripples in the yard.
Thorne Yard is owned by Dave Carnelly of Darlington Model Railway Club. Here is his description of it.
"The premise of the layout is that Thorne Yard, or the part of it that is modelled, is the small wagon repair/departmental depot that belongs to the larger yard lieing quarter of a mile down the line. The workshops handle a variety a wagons, often cripples tripped in from the Yard, but also undertake refurbishing, scrapping and servicing of the P.Way fleet. Thus allowing for some of the weird and wonderful oddments that were still to be found over the network. The complex here also holds an overflow stabling point where locos may be refuelled in between turns. Being set around the Midlands does offer great scope for locomotive sitings on the layout"