Uncle Keith's birthday steamup

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laalratty

Uncle Keith's birthday steamup

Post by laalratty » Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:54 pm

To celebrate my uncle's birthday (it was a major milestone one with a 0 in the number ;) ) a steamup and birthday party was held on my Afonglas and Nant Llywyd Railway. About 10 NWAG members present in total as well as James with Pheonix and firestarter :lol: , including a new member who it turns out knows my dad, mum and also Uncle Keith from about 30 years ago :shock:
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Pheonix was leaving the usual smoke plume on the decent down the hill!
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Britomart sits in the sidings at Afallen, plotting how it's going to cause chaos...
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Britomart passes through Afallen with the special "Inter Village 12.5"
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Criccieth Castle saw a fair bit of use with my uncles carriages
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Scrumpy Jack under the incline
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Pheonix blowing down on shed and filling my pit with water
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The other nationalised Mamod was also in attendance, although Black Beauty was much better behaved then Britomart!
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Following the failure of the radio on Taliesin, Russell got plenty of opportunities to show itself, and made 3 runs during the afternoon with about 5 different drivers!
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Of course, LMSjools had to bring David William although the double header will have to wait
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Pheonix was going really well with SLRmidge's Rheidol carriages....


and then this happened
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The wheels were coming off Midges afternoon....
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The usual passing trains shot, with Guenevere and Katie from the Scorton Bank Railway
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Russell matched with WHR carriages entering Afallen

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A strange bout of insanity and the nationalised Mamod pair went for an "interesting" run. It was fun! :lol:
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Black Beauty and Britomart charge the bank
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An ANLR first, triple header although it needed a longer train to truly need it
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Pheonix ran out of gas so it carried on with just Russell and Guenevere. Half shut your eyes and its almost Russell and Moel Tryfan....
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A last shot with the afternoon turning to evening
Many thanks to all who attended, it was one of the best steamups ever held here in my opinion. There may be a video from me or riveresk

Pretoria

Post by Pretoria » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:06 pm

:shock: Oooooooooo. Back-to-back Mamods look just like "The Square" !! :lol:

LMS-Jools

Post by LMS-Jools » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:51 pm

A most enjoyable afternoon of Steamy fun with good scoff too !
Many thnaks to Uncle Keith and Family for hosting. :D 8)

riveresk

Post by riveresk » Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:24 pm

Nice pickies, though I'm sure you could have snuck in the Two-Face cameo.

DolwyddelanLightRail

Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:44 am

Here's a few from me!

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I took Pheonix and Britomart with me, as I couldn't really be bothered to lug Snowdon all the way over!

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and has a little run around to ease everything off after not running for 2 months!

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Britomart also has a run, and terrorises the First Class passengers!

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Phoenix being prepped over the pit whilst having a cold blowdown!

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The Russel comes out

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Whilst Black Beauty comes out for a play!

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A close up of Pheonix's incident!

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And this is what happens when Laalratty tried to get a photo......and managed to just get in the way :lol:

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Black Beauty drags Britomart and the train around

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laalratty

Post by laalratty » Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:36 pm

riveresk:72675 wrote:Nice pickies, though I'm sure you could have snuck in the Two-Face cameo.
Oh go on then, I suppose the Killer Bunny has not exactly made much of a name for himself round here recently what with his almost popular Facebook page!
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Here is the NWAG Killer Bunny sat on top of his second favorite train in the whole world. The first favorite is the clockwork Meccarno made model of Percy at the PTLR that can achieve greater then mamod speeds...! :lol:

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James and his trail of destruction with Midge's carriages

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The bunny admires PTLRcecils "Total Engineering Solution" that allows Black Beauty and Britomart to couple back to back despite Britomart having no rear coupling

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Meanwhile, the villains from the world of Lego Batman decided that they should be the only bad guys in town and that the Killer Bunny needed wiping out. They drew lots as to who would do the deed, and Two-Face drew the short straw. Things were looking good for him....




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But only briefly! :lol:

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