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ANLR Christmas steamup

Post by laalratty » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:42 pm

Once again it is December, and the anniversary of the ANLR being completed as a contiuous run, so I held a steamup today in sunshine that rather contrasted to the opening day 2 years ago and last years steamup! Once again there was a good turnout of NWAG members and forum members as well. Here are some pics
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PTLRcecil represented the Pine Tree Light Railway, and brought his Beeson-Beck oddity "Gussie". Here it is raising steam outside the shed at Afonglas
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The new level crossing saw its first train today, here is a new purchase for an NWAG member, a Roundhouse Carrie named Corrie :? It did have a good chuff though, it was fitted with a Summerlands chuffer however it didn't sound like it was being thrashed with a long train
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SLRmidge brought Guillimot and his 1960's inspired Vale of Rheidol rake
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Corrie at the uper end of the line
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The ANLR was once again pleased to host Alicia from the Moel-y-Guest Light Railway, and Paul didn't even do anything unnatural with the animals this time :lol:
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The Fairfield Railway's new Atlantic also had a run
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Uncle Keith also came to his first steamup as a fully paid up member of NWAG, and I got out Taliesin for him to drive, although Paul drove for a few laps to allow him to get used to the "ray gun" type transmitter that his Linda would probably be fitted with
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Finally as dusk turned to dark Alicia hauled the last train of the day with working lights on the loco and in some coaches adding to the atmosphere
Unfortunatly the steamup couldn't go by without SLRmidge living up to his "Mad" nickname...
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Within minuites of his 2 new locos taking to the tracks one of them had derailed!
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It then happened again....

...and even worse Midge had committed the cardinal sin of running his train into an already occupied section!
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Whilst backing up the skips started to pile up as well, but by this time we were laughing so much that nobody took a photo! :lol:
Many thanks to all who turned up for making it a right good do :D

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:48 pm

Haha looks grand, are we to be expecting a video?
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Post by mhlr » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:52 pm

Super pics ratty! I saw Midge's pics on the bookface too, looks like you have a lovely time! It's my steam up on the 20th. As Mr. B just said, are you doing an Xmas video this year?
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Post by SillyBilly » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:02 pm

mhlr wrote:It's my steam up on the 20th.
Mine too! Albeit on 5in gauge.

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Post by laalratty » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:03 pm

Not sure yet, if I do do a christmas vid it will be like last year, and won't just show the steamup, it will show all the garden railway stuff I do over christmas. Riveresk is however doing a video of just this steamup, and I'm also doing a video showing various NWAG steamups from 2009 (ie those that didn't have videos made about them)

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Post by mhlr » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:37 pm

SillyBilly wrote:Mine too! Albeit on 5in gauge.
Damn, shame I can't come all that way...

Look forward to the vids ratty! Oh, and a vid from Will hint hint ;) :lol:
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Post by SLRmidge » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:10 am

Great pics of an enjoyable afternoon......
Some pics from me


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Taffy Evans has a surprise in store for the English tourists....
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Post by MoelygestLR » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:13 pm

I did get quite a bit of very good footage from the steam up so maybe I might be making a vid (if i get chance).

I'm suprised no one has put a photo up of the longest train that was hauled by a certain loco belonging to me :lol: and the incident with the vacuum pipes! (doing the opposite of thier job in real life!)

Can I just say to Laalratty, thank you for the wonderful steam up (and the food!) had a brilliant time :D P.S. why do you always say it was me with the animals!

oh and Pete, I think I'll probably be obliging with making a video for the Joys Of Life xmas steamup.

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:07 pm

Wish I could be there for the JofL christmas steam up sounds fun. I saw a vid of the East Anglian 16mmers coming over, I heared nothing about that trip though.
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Post by SillyBilly » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:31 pm

Love the level crossing.

I'm not sure if I can trust you to do the JofL video Paul, I would like to see it this side of Christmas!!
Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote:I saw a vid of the East Anglian 16mmers coming over, I heared nothing about that trip though.
That's because they are the gang who come up for the Llanberis show. As I have said in the past I'm more than willing to run the railway for you to come and have a play Zach, you just need to be in North West Wales first :lol:  ;) !

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Post by MoelygestLR » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:43 pm

SillyBilly wrote:Love the level crossing.

I'm not sure if I can trust you to do the JofL video Paul, I would like to see it this side of Christmas!!!
I thought you might like the level crossing, i was saying to laalratty are we going to see some familiar houses going up near the crossing but he wouldn't confirm any rumors :lol:

And I have more time on my hands now, so I can quite easily do it before christmas!

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Post by mhlr » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:59 pm

I think I'd be a bit worried if an Oristein & Koppel pulled up alongside my Discovery in the carpark... :lol:
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:47 pm

I'm doing my first every video for the DLR&G this year, I'm going to be posting pics shortly of when I ran Edrig for the first time!  :D


(Good to see you had a good day!)

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