Time to resurrect Spoonerisms, again...
This weekend just gone I have been to Snowdonia for my first trip on the completed WHR all the way from Porthmadog to Caernarfon.
On the Saturday evening there was a little snow which dusted the high points of Snowdonia around Beddgelert and Rhyd Ddu - very pretty when we arrived there.
Here are some pics from our trip if anyone is interested:
The work being carried out to widen the Cob didn't seem as intensive, presumably because it was
The Bure Valley Railway is a 15" gauge miniature railway, built on trackbed of the old standard gauge branch line from Wroxham to Aylsham. Here's a few photos from last summer, there's plenty more in my Bure Valley Railway Set on Flickr.
At the end of last summer we went to Hayling Seaside Railway for one of their steam weekends. Emmet was the visiting locomotive. The railway is just over a mile long according to Wikipedia and the scenery isn't that varied, but I've always had a soft spot for railways on beaches, and despite some very heavy rain we had a great afternoon out.
There's more of my photos on Flickr, and a slightly longer post on my blog.
Spoonerisms, rather neglected... Must try harder...
Anyway, I've just read news of the potential relocation of the Mull & West Highland Railway to Balloch near Loch Lomond when it's closed down and removed from its Hebridean location within the next couple of years.
More information here: http://hlrco.wordpress.com/blog/
I look forward to seeing L.O.T.I. and Victoria running at their new home
I remembered this blog today, and discovered it's been rather neglected, so I thought I'd post some photos I took of the WHHR back in July 2008 when it was still the WHR(P). I'll try to post some photos of some other railways in the next few weeks too.
Gelert's Farm Works
Gelert
One of the 3 huge Lyd2 diesels
A slate wagon and a dandy wagon from the Ffestinog Railway. Originally the states trains would travel down to Porthmadog under gravity and be pulled back up by
Spoonerisms has been rather neglected... hopefully over the winter that can be put right.
Here are some photos from my visit to the L&B gala to see Lyd in action this weekend, it's a mightily impressive loco and looks great pulling into Woody Bay!
I was disappointed on the day to find out that a ride behind Lyd was an extra £5 and it was only running hourly, we arrived fairly early and the first train we could book on was at 16:00!! A much more intensive service could have been oper
Another set of photos transferred over from RMweb3 - this time of the FR, with some in the snow - from sometime around 2005 - 2007 (they were dated on my old PC before it died )
Hope they're of use/enjoyment to some; as is becoming standard form on this blog, here's a taster:
Well, the second installment of the Dinorwic photos have finally been shifted onto the new RMweb... Linky
There are still a few other photos on the original RMweb3 thread (linked in the first post on the photo thread), but here's a sample of my poor photography of a good subject from the transferred images
There's plenty of pictures of the Talyllyn locos around, so I thought I'd post some shots of the buildings and track which I took last summer in the narrow gauge section. I've included one photo as taster.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/460-talyllyn-railway-photos/
I've just copied some photos I took last summer of Dinorwic Quarry from RMweb 3 to the NG Prototype section - http://www.rmweb.co....-quarry-photos/
As most of my photos are stuck on a half-dead hard drive, these are pretty poor quality (the maximum that the old forum would allow) even accounting for my poor photography skills. If I ever recover the originals, I'll replace them with some better ones! I will add a 'taster' here though:
A few of us thought we'd start a general NG blog together on the new format forum as a bit of fun.
A while back I went to Launceston to see the visiting Darjeeling Himalayan Railway B Class which was imported back into the UK by Adrian Shooter a few years ago. The original examples don't have tenders, this was added upon restoration in the UK.
Believe it or not, even though they rarely do more than 25 miles an hour, a streamlined tank loco was developed in the 1930s! It seems this was
