The End of the Pine Tree Light Railway (North)

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The End of the Pine Tree Light Railway (North)

Post by laalratty » Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:22 pm

Today was the final steamup on the full length PTLR with northern section and cross garden rail link. The line will most likely be ripped up by the end of next weekend. However, it went out with a bang, with a large steamup and some great double heading pairings, amid some gorgeous weather
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First out were the two Superiors
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Backlit at Coppermill Junction
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Next out were the old and new Lady Annes, Sir Robin leading Urien
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Storming the bank
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Little Morecambe Steam Railway loco policy has got somewhat confusing. With a new DJB coal fired boiler arriving soon, Lady of the Lake's old gas fired boiler has been donated to Lady Adele, and the tender has moved too!
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Jacks Edrig made a nice contrast with its short train, although it did seem to spend a lot of time getting held up by other trains!
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Blue Lady Anne and Darj train
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The Archangel pair of Sammy and Sgt Murphey

Time for a bit of chaos....

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Black Beauty and the Killer Bunny Guided missile that is Britomart!
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On the viaduct, and yes they are actually pulling a couple of those very heavy Isle of Man carriages, plus some 4 wheelers
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The Darj pair and train
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Owain leads Pheonix down the CGRL
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The pair swapped over
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The Windy Ridge Railway sorted out its own double header with Countess Leinegen and Stelfox, dunno what is happening though that livery is starting to grow on me! :?
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Emerging from the tunnel
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The last pairing when I was there was the noisiest, and what a noise with Lyn and King Arthur. What was really impressive was Lyn starting this lot, SINGLE HANDED with King Arthur shut off! :shock:
I then left as I took James to catch a train at Lancaster, but I believe there was some more interesting trains planned. The very last train before closure will be the original PTLR north train of Edrig "Lesley K" and two IOM 4 wheelers. Then, a grand 4 years in the life of the PTLR will come to an end.

Pine Tree Light Railway North. 2008 - 2012. R.I.P

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Post by 90733 » Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:27 pm

Great pics, and a great steam up, will get my up soon!
Thanks
Jack

ptlrcecil

Post by ptlrcecil » Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:43 pm

Great pics.
LK hasent performed the final movement yet as that will be on the morning the gangers move in. As for the superpowers I realised king arthurs filler wasent screwed in fully. Upon screwing it in it could actually make steam ergo one spectacular vid of them to storming the bank (within line speed of course :-) )

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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:14 pm

Here's a couple from me!

I arrived when Urien and Sir Robin had just finished running, spotted here running LE back to the engine sheds

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Meanwhile.....

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Today was also a great day for steam effects with the sun!

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I brought along Pheonix, and of course with two black edrigs on the line, this was bound to happen!

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However Lesley Kay was taken off due to a blocked jet, so Pheonix carried on.

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It weren't long before the loco on Bungle's video that inspired me to get a black edrig returned!

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Britomart was then stolen by the Killer Bunny!

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and managed to haul quite a load with Black Beauty

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and then after managing to hold everyone up and also setting fire to most things on the line, BB was taken off and Brit happily went round

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and Pheonix worked with Owain with one rather large train!

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and then the loco's were swapped around

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and to finish it off, I decided to give Pheonix a proper thrash.....

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3 of the IoM Bogies, and when it managed to CTRL reletively easily with those, I added another!

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and it just managed it up the CGRL on very slippy rails! But so it seems that my second trip there, would be the last to run on the PTLR North

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Cheers for today and also for the lifts to and from railway stations! :D

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Post by Pendo Pilot » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:10 pm

Superb pics there fella's. Good weather for the last day as well.

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Post by 90733 » Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:04 pm

Thanks
Jack

Matt

Post by Matt » Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:34 pm

Great video.

I've got an idea for one, a then and now video. Bit difficult to explain, so here's the video that gave me the idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EghyrrXq9Aw

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:56 pm

Cracking video Jack, a fitting tribute to the line. The official video of the last days of the PTLR north will feature all of the double heading combinations from the last two steamups, and so should feature a very large range of locos! It'll be out sometime after I send my footage to PTLRcecil....

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Post by ptlrcecil » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:25 am

Dont worry about the footage chris I've got about 5GB to work with and cracking shots of every train. As soon as I finish another wee project Im working on Ill get it edited together.

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