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On 28th August I rode on a steam train on the Welsh Highland Railway through the Aberglaslyn pass. So what, some of you will say. Well, I found it hard to believe - 40 years previously I had walked the track bed thinking it would be fantastic to see steam trains running on the line but never believing it would happen, but it has happened and here's some pictures from that day. I'm not ashamed to say I found it quite an emotional moment.

 

Phil

 

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Achilles visits Westbury

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50045 Achilles has arrived at Westbury with Southern Region engineers empties from Salisbury,

it has run-round the train and now stands waiting to head west to Meldon Quarry, 14/9/82

 

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On 28th August I rode on a steam train on the Welsh Highland Railway through the Aberglaslyn pass. So what, some of you will say. Well, I found it hard to believe - 40 years previously I had walked the track bed thinking it would be fantastic to see steam trains running on the line but never believing it would happen, but it has happened and here's some pictures from that day. I'm not ashamed to say I found it quite an emotional moment.

 

 

 Well good for you! In my case the trackbed experience was in 1966, and I'm hoping I may manage the train ride in 2013!

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Illuminations visitors to Blackpool Central (aka Rigby Road) MPD over the weekend of 26th & 27th September 1964.

Sorry the quality isn't brilliant, but hope they're of interest despite the technical shortcomings.

 

It's worth remembering that the shed (and station, and lines in from Blackpool South) closed 5 weeks later - obviously insufficient traffic to make it pay.

Or am I being cynical?

 

 

Oliver Cromwell

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Un-named '47

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46160 Queen Victoria's Rifleman

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75041

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D7590 alongside the alfresco sand drying furnace.

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Overcrowding on the K&WVR.

 

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The thread is 'Locomotive Portraits'. All I see here is about 30-odd people and the glimpse of an LNER machine... :)

 

I'll guess 61264 is there somewhere.

 

Edited for mistaken number

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