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Another half dozen photos all taken at the Eastleigh 100 in 2010.

First, the "Three Amigos".

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Then, "Brute Power".

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Thirdly, just so this is not all the same.

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For something definitely not the same. It occurred to me the number of modellers who sprinkle their depot scene with loco wheels(usually just the one?) Not driving wheels but wheels all the same!

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Now back to diesels and electrics with this duo. 

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Finally, or is it?

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I'll chip in the first round of many to come:

 

110 year old Beyer Peacock 3016T at Central Station

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The first locomotive across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1905, sits in the NSWRTM

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NR18 in new Indian Pacific livery at Central on January 2nd

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100 year old Hunslet 2705 at Thirlmere

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4306, the only diesel of her design left in the world at Central

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4918 on the AK track recording cars at Central

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4473, unique in being the only 44 out of one hundred to have a horizontal rear headlight

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A study of DL liveries. DL44 is one of only two left in this colour scheme, whereas DL40 is in standard Pacific National Blue and Yellow

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And, whilst not technically a locomotive, I just can't resist this one of Paybus FP1 down at Thirlmere in the RTM

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Judge Dread & I were obviously both at Eastleigh 100

.... probably getting in each others' way ;)

 

It was a very pleasant day out was it not? As to "getting in anyone's way", I have a wife of 48 years standing (tomorrow as a matter of fact), to do that.

On the theme of obstructions etc, did you see this derailment on the Saturday afternoon to the north of Eastleigh. I took the picture on max telephoto, steadying the camera against the wall of the supermarket just under the road over bridge.

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6960 "Raveningham Hall" , having taken a wrong turn somewhere, at the stops in Minehead.

 

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9351 GWR 2-6-0 Mongrel Mogul taking water at Bishops Lydeard.

 

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4160 Large Prairie outside former Goods Shed at Minehead

 

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Pictures taken first week in June 2013

 

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6960 "Raveningham Hall" , having taken a wrong turn somewhere, at the stops in Minehead.

 

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9351 GWR 2-6-0 Mongrel Mogul taking water at Bishops Lydeard.

 

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4160 Large Prairie outside former Goods Shed at Minehead

 

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Pictures taken first week in June 2013

 

That Hall livery/tender is what Hornby should be releasing their Castle with.

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As a youngster I was fascinated by pictures of foreign locos and how different most of them looked from our own but one engine which seemed far less alien to me was the Australia NSWGR C38 in its streamlined form.  Already being ousted by dieselisation it was obvious to me that I was was never going to see one as I was hardly likely to make my way to the other side of the world and it certainly wouldn't be before steam finished in Australia.

 

But life takes some strange turns and so it was that in September 2004 - after the end of my 'big railway' career - I found myself working on a short term consultancy job for City Rail in Sydney.  I knew a bit about preserved railways in Aus but almost nothing about mainline steam in NSW so it was a huge, and very enjoyable, surprise to come across this  train in Central one Saturday morning as I was on my way to the ZigZag Railway.  And not just any steam special but one with a streamlined C38 at the head of it - only goes to show that some childhood dreams really can come true.

 

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Yet more from me, taken at Eastleigh 100
Why can't we have more open days like this?

D7612, in surely the best livery for a 25?

and 20110, with the safety covering for the 3rd rail in position -
It looks like it's sat on wooden track! ;)

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NSWGR 4490, preserved by the NSWRTM

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NSWGR 44211, Preserved by the NSWRTM

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NR26 on the Indian Pacific

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Hunslet #1825 of 1938 PWD 79 'Plum', the only Standard Gauge Hunslet 0-6-0ST to run in Australia

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XPT at Central

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Beyer Peacock 'P6' C32 #3265 Hunter at Thirlmere in Maroon

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3642, the NSWRTM's current workhorse

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3609 languishing out the back of the RTM

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3616, the only locomotive in Australia fitted with a Giesel Obong Ejector, in the running shed at the RTM stripped for assesment to possibly return to trafic (taken by a volunteer)

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4520 at Central with regauged VR (now CFCLA) S300 running around the Sydney Children's Hospital special (each child left with a Hornby train set)

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And to show Mike what a REAL C38 looks like ( :)), here is 3820 down at the RTM

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No. 18 Ailsa.  An ex-contractors locomotive on the Isle of Man Railway and built by the Hunslet Railway Co.

 

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MNR No.4 Caledonia at Colby on the Isle of Man Railway.  0-6-0 built by Dubs & Co in 1885

 

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Beyer, Peacock & Co 2-4-0 No. 8 Fenella at Castletown in the Isle of Man Railway.  Just a 119 years old.

 

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