The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Andrew » Sun May 10, 2020 1:01 pm

sjrixon wrote: Fri May 08, 2020 7:56 pm Could you take some wide shots of the line and share? Sounds quite interesting layout you have there.
I'll try to remember to do that - will need to tidy up the garden a bit first though!

In the meantime, here are a few shots of a post-inspection run yesterday evening...

Cheers,

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by sjrixon » Sun May 10, 2020 2:56 pm

Good pictures, thanks.. It's going to take that bolster wagon a while to load up all the wood in the background!! :)

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Andrew » Sun May 10, 2020 3:10 pm

sjrixon wrote: Sun May 10, 2020 2:56 pm Good pictures, thanks.. It's going to take that bolster wagon a while to load up all the wood in the background!! :)
I fear it may end up somewhat overloaded!

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Andrew » Sun May 10, 2020 3:43 pm

Eeek! Just went outside to sort a few things out before the rain starts and found that I'd left poor Russell in the garden for all of last night and most of today! In its box, but in the middle of the lawn! It's a good job the neighbours are honest...

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon May 11, 2020 6:38 am

Flipping heck, that could have been a very costly mistake Andrew. Still alls well now and your Russell is safely back in the house. :thumbright:

I have done that with my cordless drill when we lived in our bungalow in Longton, like you, luckily it was that really hot summer in 2018.. :roll:

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Soar Valley Light » Mon May 11, 2020 5:12 pm

Really great pictures again Andrew. I loved the one's of 590 last week and I love yesterdays shots or Russel just as much. Very well taken to give maximum reality.

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Post by tom_tom_go » Tue May 12, 2020 8:47 pm

I hope the Slomo fitted to Russell is providing realistic running with your end to end operations.

Russell really does look the part on your railway Andrew.

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Andrew » Sat May 16, 2020 6:47 pm

Hello!

I had another running session this afternoon, a little different from the last few. In those I'd been trying to recreate the 1920s Welsh Highland as much as possible, but today's trains were just what I happened to fancy.

A mixed goods was formed of some of my smaller wagons, initially hauled by new-ish diesel No. 6.

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The Faller railbus provided a token passenger service but didn't seem to attract much (or, indeed, any) custom:

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To round things off, "Daisy", my Regner loco plodded about slowly too:

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It was a spur of the moment thing, with nothing but my elbows as a tripod, but I made a short film too, spliced together on my phone using some free software my daughter found for me. I quite like it, so I might edit it a little more aesthetically at some point. The "whistling" at the end of the first section is a neighbour's daughter tootling away on a recorder - I was inwardly cursing at the time, but it actually worked quite well. Maybe there's a sheep on the line!

Anyway, here's the film:

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Cheers all,

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by FWLR » Sun May 17, 2020 8:28 am

Nice little video Andrew, love the shot coming through your new tunnel. The greenery growing over it looks just right.

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by sjrixon » Sun May 17, 2020 10:59 am

Enjoyed the video. That loco runs so very nicely.

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by LNR » Sun May 17, 2020 11:04 am

I too enjoyed the video. The Regner geared locos are nice set and forget types.
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Post by ge_rik » Sun May 17, 2020 11:05 am

I really enjoyed that. I do like seeing a mixed goods train wandering through the scenery.

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun May 17, 2020 11:14 am

Geared Regner locos are brilliant, they just plod along.

Any chance of seeing your Regner out on your railway soon Rik?

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Andrew » Sun May 17, 2020 12:05 pm

I do love my little Regner.

I've got a tender for it half built, but I'm not convinced it's a great idea - will it actually add anything??? Other than somewhere to store coal and water of course, which seem to be lacking at the moment - I assume it's a well tank, with coal in the cab...

Glad you like the planting on the tunnel Rod. It's a little clump of sedum I pinched from the flat roof at Bristol's Central Library when I worked there. I had to wait until a Saturday, when the senior managers don't work, then climb out of a window to get it!

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by FWLR » Mon May 18, 2020 7:44 am

Andrew wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 12:05 pm Glad you like the planting on the tunnel Rod. It's a little clump of sedum I pinched from the flat roof at Bristol's Central Library when I worked there. I had to wait until a Saturday, when the senior managers don't work, then climb out of a window to get it!

Cheers all,

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There are always ways of getting free stuff for the railway.... :laughing3: :laughing3:

Will have to try something like that when we can get away from this blooming "Shielded Group" both Anne and myself are in.... :thumbright: :thumbright:

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Andrew » Sat May 23, 2020 2:14 pm

Hello!

The (WH)WHR took on a distinctly industrial vibe today, with the two RH battery locos in service to celebrate the return to action of No 5 "Margaret" following a battery pack replacement.

Here they are doing their thing between gardening tasks. It was all so nice that I did begin to wonder why I bother with those expensive and complicated steam engines...

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Enjoy them while you can - it's planned that the "Hercules" will give up its chassis to a scratchbuilt Kerr Stuart diesel, and if that works out the "Little John"'s body may be replaced by that of an armoured Simplex. All in good time, of course...

Finally, another in the infrequent and not very interesting series "Wildlife of the "(WH)WHR" - I was surprised to find this little fella in one of the tippers when I put them away. I think he was probably surprised to be there too - I reckon he got blown out of the tree he was feasting on...

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Cheers all,

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by sjrixon » Sat May 23, 2020 4:21 pm

You did well to get out in the garden. It's really, really, really windy here! Would have blown my skips off the track.

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by LNR » Sun May 24, 2020 12:57 am

Glad you got the batteries sorted Andrew, and got to enjoy some running.
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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by Jimmyb » Sun May 24, 2020 9:10 am

Andrew, nice to hear things came out all right in the end :thumbleft: - everything seems to take that bit longer

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Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway

Post by ge_rik » Sun May 24, 2020 10:08 am

tom_tom_go wrote: Sun May 17, 2020 11:14 am
Any chance of seeing your Regner out on your railway soon Rik?
I might dust it down and give it a run, if I can remember how to operate it .... 🤔

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