Golden Fishplate Ceremony at the MYGLR

[SillyBilly]

Today I spent the day a moelygestlr's Moel-Y-Gest Light Railway, through combined effort we produced this idea to mock (in a good way, Paul is a WHR tracklayer) the recent joing of the FfR and WHR. As the loop had been linked up a few years ago this was crowned the official ceremony of the linking.
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Baguley and Ballasting train on one of the railway's bridges

The train approaches Moel-Y-Gest crossing

Shunting the trucks

The final bolt is tightened

'Isabelle' on the crossing

'Alicia' and 'Isabelle'

'Alicia' on the service set

[laalratty]

Brilliant "The dab hand gang" lmao
Nice video, i seriously need one of those ballast wagons, would make reballasting so much easier (guess what I've been doing recently?)

[TonyW]

Last Saturday's events in Porthmadog seem to have missed out the bit where one loco rams another....!

[SillyBilly]

Ye, I think they took it too seriously, needed some humour somewhere.

[ACLR]

well done great vid

[MuzTrem]

Ye, I think they took it too seriously, needed some humour somewhere.

Personally I think it would have been great if they'd held the ceremony at Traeth Mawr; then they could have used Russell (if only its overhaul had been completed in time) and one of the Garratts to recreate that clichéd photograph of Promontory Point...oh well.

[SillyBilly]

The problem with having it there is the ceremony is not right next to the company's own pub, cafe and shop .

[LMS-Jools]

lol Marvelous

[MoelygestLR]

Last Saturday's events in Porthmadog seem to have missed out the bit where one loco rams another....!

I know, it was some bad driving on my part. To be fair that was the first time i had driven Alicia for a while and isn't it always the case that the time you cock up is the time when its on video!

A great day was had by both me and will though. There were quite a few accidents too, quite realsitic some of them! (unfortunatly, i dont think any where caught on camera).