A Weekend of Steam!

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A Weekend of Steam!

Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:10 pm

Saturday just been saw the visit of myself, Laurence703 and DLRdan to Butterley which much chaos ensuing...

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Laurence brought along Ofario and Superior

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Whilst I brought along Pheonix and Britomart

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As seen from the photos, after Britomart's farewell at Brambleton earlier in the year, the locomotive was allocated a B+ exam, resulting in it receiving a Gremlin Burner to help it through it's last few months of service.

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Pheonix decides it doesn't like rails anymore....so whilst me and Laurence attempt to sort out my stack up...

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Britomart grew something...


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A pat on the back goes to who can see where the inspiration comes from for the tender!

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...and as the tender was now attached, it would have been rude not to test it out...

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After some running, Laurence then smuggled me into his car and the drive up to North Wales begun, to visit the PTLR (Wales) the next day, as seen by Ofario heading down the bank before breakfast

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Pheonix and Superiour came out for a run

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Whilst Britomart and Ofario still continued to power on up the bank

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However the day was ended with Resurgam's quarry hunslet coming out for a play

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Many thanks to Resurgam for the hospitality over the Sunday and also for Dan for the extra wear on his car springs heading home on Saturday :lol:

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Post by laalratty » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:32 pm

Lovely photos as usual. Still can't help worrying about that tender though.... :shock:
"What the hell is that?"
"It's a model icebreaker sir."
"It's a bit big isn't it?"
"It's a full scale model sir....."

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Post by williamfj » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:04 pm

Cracking photos as ever, Superior's got a great working look about her.

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Post by Dannypenguin » Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:12 pm

Great photos, thank for sharing :)
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Post by DLRdan » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:11 pm

laalratty:97568 wrote:Lovely photos as usual. Still can't help worrying about that tender though.... :shock:

How are you still worried ? You have known about them for ages! Great photos as always James.
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Post by laurence703 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:26 pm

I spose I'd best post a few of mine! I didn't get as many as James...
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Off to Wales...

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All in all it was a cracking weekend! [/img]
No one expects the SPANISH ACQUISITION!!!

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Post by steamie1 » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:23 pm

Schmoking! If that lots doesn't inspire nothing will! Cheers for those lovely photos.

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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:10 am

For those interested, the full set of photos from me can be seen here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 63914f65ca

(You don't have to be a member of facebook, you can view the album without being a member)

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Post by Resurgam05 » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:10 pm

Cracking set of photos guys.

Glad you enjoyed yourselves; it was certainly a relief that the new line didn't give any major problems after all that heavy rain and now that it has had time to settle.
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Post by jim@NAL » Tue Mar 11, 2014 8:35 pm

now that looks like a fun day lovly pictures too well done

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Post by Andrew » Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:03 pm

Lovely photos, thank you. But why is the iconic Britomart to be retired? Is the poor thing just worn out? White wheel rims might be in questionable taste, but surely they're not a scrapping offence?!

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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:10 am

Cheers for the comments! :)
Andrew:97616 wrote:Lovely photos, thank you. But why is the iconic Britomart to be retired? Is the poor thing just worn out? White wheel rims might be in questionable taste, but surely they're not a scrapping offence?!

Cheers,

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It isn't being retired for scrapping, it's been retired from "front line" service (i.e. being taken to every steam up I go to) for overhaul as anyone who has seen the loco run will tell you how badly the front wheels dance when the loco is in motion... :shock:

...and there is nothing wrong with whitewalling :lol:

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Post by DLRdan » Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:14 am

In other words, the cylinders wobble less than the wheels. :D
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