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Peter Butler, as winner of the most recent Gallery, for the next gallery has proposed the theme: 'Something beginning with B', which, as he says, should lead to a range of miscellaneous entries and open creative minds.

So Rules as always, and closing date for entries will be 1st September.

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Given the subject, I simply can NOT resist this as the first entry:

A Butler beginning with B!

Where on earth did you get that dreadful picture?
Even if it remains the only entry, it shouldn't win any awards!

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 6:19 pm Where on earth did you get that dreadful picture?
Even if it remains the only entry, it shouldn't win any awards!

I cropped it from a fairly recent post about one of your group visits to, I think, Trevor's layout.
There was a better picture on another similar occasion but I couldn't find it.

And there's me thinking you blurred the image to preserve anonymity - like they do in news programmes ......

Rik
PS. With Beeston Market, Beeston Castle, Bulkeley and Bickerton stations - not to mention the brewery and the boneworks - on my railway, I'm a bit spoilt for choice......

For me a Breakdown train comes to mind .

Preseli Chris wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 12:01 pm For me a Breakdown train comes to mind .

No good without a picture, this is a photo competition after all!

OK - Here goes.
Black Hawthorn loco No. 14 BURWARDSLEY, delivering Beer Barrels to Beeston Brewery at Beeston Castle station.
I was wondering whether to add it was taken on a Bank Holiday with driver Bertie Bebbington and Bill Barrett the guard - but thought I might be pushing the envelope a bit.

Rik
PS - Real names taken from the 1911 census for the area

Quantity and quality!

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 1:20 pm OK - Here goes.
Black Hawthorn loco No. 14 BURWARDSLEY, delivering Beer Barrels to Beeston Brewery at Beeston Castle station.
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I was wondering whether to add it was taken on a Bank Holiday with driver Bertie Bebbington and Bill Barrett the guard - but thought I might be pushing the envelope a bit.

Rik
PS - Real names taken from the 1911 census for the area

Blimey!!

From back of the class. Is my entry

Banksman Barry Brith Beckons on a Big Baguley to Buffer up to a Broken down Breakdown train.

B.....

Brill Tramway Loco 807:

And for my second entry

Barclay 2-4-0T loco No. 2 BEESTON, brings bricks to Bulkeley Boneworks for a new bunker for the beam engine.


Rik

Thanks guys, a cracking start. You have embraced the idea most enthusiastically.
I wonder whether it will be judged on the most appropriate image or the number of 'B's' crammed into the title?

Bringing ballast boulders for the bare bricks and a brake van around the back bend. (Meanwhile, just out of frame, a boy and a baby borrow branches and blocks while blowing bubbles!)

Peter Butler wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:37 pm Thanks guys, a cracking start. You have embraced the idea most enthusiastically.
I wonder whether it will be judged on the most appropriate image or the number of 'B's' crammed into the title?

Aren't they the same thing?

Big Bridge Built By Bodgers.

Burlington no. 5628 Bearing Big Train Barrels around the Bend into the Black Tunnel. Not great, I know, but it's all I have...

dudeface wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:26 pm Burlington no. 5628 Bearing Big Train Barrels around the Bend into the Black Tunnel.
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Not great, I know, but it's all I have...

Pretty good, to my mind

Rik

ge_rik wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:23 pm

dudeface wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:26 pm Burlington no. 5628 Bearing Big Train Barrels around the Bend into the Black Tunnel.
70BFC0D5-7A51-43AB-A67D-F760DC182EB4.jpeg

Not great, I know, but it's all I have...

Pretty good, to my mind

Rik

Second that.

GAP wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:32 pm

ge_rik wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:23 pm

dudeface wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:26 pm Burlington no. 5628 Bearing Big Train Barrels around the Bend into the Black Tunnel.
70BFC0D5-7A51-43AB-A67D-F760DC182EB4.jpeg

Not great, I know, but it's all I have...

Pretty good, to my mind

Rik

Second that.

Well, I suppose it's pretty good compared to Philip's....