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    Spring is sprung - butterflies are out

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    That's super Chaz

     

    Only one butterfly up the USk valley today - a tortoiseshell basking in the very un-Welsh sunshine

     

    It was a glorious day....and a blizzard of Baetis Rhodani (Large Dark Olive) turned up for half an hour around mid day - the trout were far more impressed with them than our feathered models although half a dozen were foolish but carefully returned and advised to be more cautious next time....

     

    The Usk trout are a special breed, built like torpedos and spotted like leopards

     

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    Phil

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    Kernow announce Class 47 D1670 in two tone green and MK1 GUV as Surbiton - Okehampton car carrier

    in Kernow Model Rail Centre

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    Mammoth has just been collected from next door......they take in more parcels for us than we do ourselves. Not bad as I only ordered it at 9.15 am yesterday.

     

    On visual inspection it is :good: One thing I think might be missing is the red route restriction dots under the numbers. Most WR Type Four and a Half carried these, does anyone know if D1670 did not?

     

     

    At last a Bachy Brush with serck shutters in two tone green. :locomotive:  Ok I could have repainted one of the other liveries but have you seen the pile of D1500s I have waiting outside the paint shop.

     

     

    Edit, to answer my own question I found 5 photos of it in the livery as modelled, three of them show the red dots, and two do not. :scratchhead:

    What - isn't your letterbox large enough for a Mammoth Clive?

     

    Phil

    Severn Valley Railway

    in Preservation

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    Never been on the footplate in the dark but having travelled up the Valley in the past behind 5164 in the Gresleys on a moonlight night on an all night running gala the atmosphere was amazing.

     

    Can only imagine what that's like on the footplate.

     

    Phil

    Severn Valley Railway

    in Preservation

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    Many thanks for putting that informative post on Blandford

     

    As a supporter since 1970 - I was on the first public train from Bridgnorth - I share your positive points but also some of the disappointment others are expressing around the replacement of the annual gala with what appears to be a non enthusiast event.

     

    Its a shame the FS visit couldn't have been planned for a different weekend so the railway could benefit from two significant income streams. Mind you, the Manor 50 event later last year was popular so I do hope the doubters are confounded and both this plus the rearranged and later gala are successful

     

    Kind regards

     

    Phil

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