We had a little outing to Toddington yesterday – to visit the North Gloucestershire Railway’s Gala – three visiting locomotives, comprising two old friends – Statfold and Taffy, who need no introduction – and Gertrude, newly-restored sister of “The Doll” at Leighton Buzzard. Before the restoration was completed last month, it had been 50 years since Gertrude had last steamed.
Visit “North Gloucestershire – narrow gauge” on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” for more on the event…
Visit “Max power at Apedale” on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” for the full(ish) story and the pictures…
12th September – their only open day this year (so far…) The guys at Apedale have done a splendid job building a railway for the Moseley Trust’s amazing collection of narrow gauge equipment. A fine new station building is partially constructed, and a running line laid long enough to enable visiting O&K “Max” to stretch his legs. The Statfold guys have done a splendid job too – Max is a very fine locomotive.
A Rail Diaries page will appear eventually (with photos and video of much more than Max); in the meantime, just for a change, here’s a preview in video format.
As promised – photos and video of Sunday’s trip to the Rhiw Valley Light Railway. Visit “Rhiw Valley revisited” on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries“
Last year it was wet – not actually raining all the time, but the long grass in the fields was wet – so were we by the time we left. This year, rain was threatened, but held off for our visit.
*The Rhiw Valley Railway is a private 15″ railway, a few miles up the valley from Berriew in the Severn valleyn between Welshpool and Newtown – today’s visit was to the annual open day.
It’s been a little while since I updated the “Walks with a Camera“. It’s not that we haven’t been out and about – far from it. However, most expeditions in the last 12 months or so have been fairly short local wanders, which hardly seemed to deserve a page (perhaps, before too long, some “Shropshire Shorties”?)
Anyway, here’s an account of a reasonable-length ramble to the top of Shropshire’s highest hill – at 1772′, surely it deserves a page of its own? Visit “Brown Clee and the Boyne” for the usual illustrated account.
…is at Blists Hill, site of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum’s “Victorian Town”. Opened on Monday 24th August, a 2′ gauge “mine experience” railway now operates. Along with the newly-opened “incline lift”, the regularly-steamed Trevithick replica and several static railway and plateway exhibits, the museum is now of some rail significance… Visit “Ancient and modern at Blists Hill” on the “Rail Diaries” pages
Got to do these things in the right order… Have just uploaded “LNER (part1)” to the Kenneth Gray pages on “monorail“. Once again, lots of LNER photos, so we start with the LNER-built examples, more-or-less…
…as promised. Visit “LMS (part 2)” on the “monorail” pages
There are hundreds of LMS images in Kenneth Gray’s collection. Here’s a selection of the various locomotives designed and/or built by the LMS (pre-grouping classes to follow…)
Visit “LMS (part 1)” on the “monorail” pages
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