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Gales hit the Fairfield Railway

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:25 pm
by SLRmidge
Geoff's idea of tonights evening steam up seemed a good idea last week, when the weather was OK! However on arrival, problems of stock stability in what felt like a force 8 gale soon became apparent :shock:


Everything seemed fine at first..........
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Then the problems started as the wind speed increased.........

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The quarry workers are definately going to sue!

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And the coal waller had a job staying onboard!

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I gave up taking shots of derailments, but did get a couple of quite nice backlit shots as the sun sank........


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As the gloom set in, the last trains of the day ran.......

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Till next time.....................

Re: Gales hit the Fairfield Railway

Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:36 pm
by Pendo Pilot
SLRmidge wrote:
Then the problems started as the wind speed increased.........

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Apart from the fact you have tilt failure on the frontend it just looks like a normal day at work for me..... :twisted:  :twisted:

Was windy down here as well today, decided to leave the stock in the shed.

Very funny with the quarrymen pic, I will show that pic to the next VT chef that starts shouting at me for speeding around weedon curves & making his eggs & sauasges go up the kitchen wall.  I could say "it could be worse, like this".

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:08 pm
by laalratty
Well with my track record with the wind I think it is a good thing that I wasn't there! Nice pics anyhow

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:14 pm
by DLRdan
Gales hit the Fairfield Railway
Oh ? What did she hit it with :D

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:16 pm
by Dr. Bond of the DVLR
-groan-

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:24 pm
by plewsy2105
there's always one....... ;)

Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:30 pm
by laalratty
Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote:-groan-
You can talk zach! :lol:

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:56 pm
by 90733
SLRmidge, wheres your Green battery loco from, I like it :D?

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:13 pm
by Sir haydn
Its a JD models loco, owned by john turner. No longer in production but a similar model on ebay at the mo
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/16mm-Scale-SM32-D ... 43a19741e7