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Well, its been a while, but i'm back!!!

Today saw the first outdoor meeting for2012 of the East of Scotland Group (of the 16mm assoc) and as I had a rare Saturday off work, I was lucky enough to attend. This was my first visit to the end-to-end line and it took a bit of getting used to the block working, with 3 people acting as signallers along the line, communicating through use of buzzers!!! Made for an interesting afternoon's running! It was also nice to see no duplication of class of loco with a good variety of locos in steam!

So here are the pics...


A Cheddar (class?) approaches Bridgend halt.


The Cheddar prepares to be turned at Cardean (the far terminus) before running round its train.


Cumberland sits with a short freight at Belmont Station


Cumberland blows off at Kinpurnie Junction station whilst waiting for the road


Cumberland sits on the turntable at Cardean


A Roundhouse Darj departs Cardean


A heavily rebuilt mamod (essentially a PPS Jane now) departs Kinpurnie Jcn station enroute to Cardean


The Darj, shortly after departing Belmont heads onto a viaduct before plunging into 1 of the lines many tunnels...


...emerging near Bridgend halt.


A Roundhouse Linda awaits departure from Cardean Station


Linda passes Bridgend Halt


Linda exits the other end of the tunnel, bound for Belmont


A RH Bertie (I thhink!?!) exits Bridgend tunnel


Resident RH Atlantic exits Bridgend tunnel heading to the sawmill.

On running in trials.....



....an extremely Shiny Roundhouse Leek & Manifold loco.

There was also a few battery operated locos too, some of which make bluebottle look quick!!!!


A Friog (sp?) Harlech Castle hauls a freight on the approach to Kilpurnie Jcn


This loco is actually climbing a working incline that is designed for wagons only!!


Passing through Luib Halt


A tram, with trailercoach hauls a little freight, however it was running in a rather different formation a few minutes earlier...


Sorry if there are A LOT of pics, but i'm making up for my absence!!!!

Yay! Welcome back onboard Bungle Great set of photo's, no apologies required!
And I have to say "what a brilliant turntable!"

That's one hell of a railway!

Cheddar is a Riesa and I reckon the "Bertie" is a "Sammie", which is basically the same thing dressed up to look American.

Great to have you back Bungle, been rather a lack of bungling round here recently
I see you havn't lost your eye for taking some absolutely beautiful photos as well! Really nice, and a great mixture of locos as well. The one right at the start is a Cheddar, looks like a Riesa but not that well up on Cheddar locos. Looks a supurb line though

I forgot to ask the owner of the Cheddar, but had a suspicion it was a Riesa. The slightly unusual look of the bertie, or should I say Sammie is what threw me!!

Didnt think I had got that many good shots til i came to post them here!! Managed to capture all the steam, but missed a few of the battery locos. From the pics it doesnt look like the line is that long, but it was just a matter of the good pics being in the same locations. It was a good length run, with a return trip taking about 10 mins by the time you have waited for the right of way and run round at the far end, and thats not counting any shunting of particular wagons into specific sidings along the line!!!!

Good to see you back, and yes the line looks lovely, great lookin turntable, and its good to here about a bit of block running too.

Ooof, ten minutes long run and realistic operation of pick- up goods trains? I want a go!

Some great pics, Looks like a superb line

Endless, Nameless:68357 wrote:Ooof, ten minutes long run and realistic operation of pick- up goods trains? I want a go!

So I can put you down for a turn when I start having "Timetable Days" as well as the usual free-for-all steamups? How does 11 scale miles run in real time grab you?

TommyDodd:68386 wrote:How does 11 scale miles run in real time grab you?

You can put ME down for that!

Sounds fantastic... you are a bit of a treck from us here though!