The Silverdale Light Railway (North) Grand Re-Opening

SLRmidge · Post by **SLRmidge** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:28 pm

Whilst the Royal Wedding celebrations took place we, at the SLR(N), held our own celebrations for the reopening of the railway after much rebuilding work. I counted 15 folk and around a dozen loco's. Some pics.....

The Grand Re-Opening Special......

SLRmidge · Post by **SLRmidge** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:39 pm

More pics...

I thought the 5mph speed restriction added by Laalratty on the unrebuilt section was a slight overreaction!

laalratty · Post by **laalratty** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:13 pm

He he, well that state of the unrebuilt section did justify the speed restriction

A train obediantly observes the speed limit

The decoration in the garden strangly suggested another big occasion had happened today...

"Quarry Hunslet" had bought along a nice little AnDel Ffion, which unlike PTLR cecils Ffion, could actually pull the skin off a rice pudding

90733 (Jack) had bought along his lovely Roundhouse Jack

Re-opening special calls at Eaves Wood

David William passes Waterslack

Midge cuts the celebratory cake

A new photo location with the Billy from the Stanwix Light Railway

Guest of honour was an Archangel Little Wonder. Unfortunatly it only managed a few laps, but the double exaust sounded great on the grades

Little Wonder at Eaves Wood

Katie from the Scorton Bank Railway (renamed "Kate" for the day..)

Taliesin steams towards Eaves Wood

Rolling into Eaves Wood

Linda from the Coniston Railway, which had a wild day!

Another new Roundhouse Jack, this one on just its second steaming

Jack's Jack again, passing Waterslack

PTLR cecil bought Sir Robin, now finally performing to its full potential fitted with a modern day gas fired Lady Anne boiler, and (shock, horror!) fitted with a Summerlands chuffer!!!

Final runner was Hartside from the Forest Fields Railway, we will shortly be heading there again for another June steamup
Many thanks to SLR midge for finally rebuilding his railway, meaning events like this happened with much less hassel

Also thanks for all the food provided, although it won't have done much good for people's weight!!!
Now then, next up is PTLR fest....

(please note though this isn't on the first May bank holiday as usual)

90733 · Post by **90733** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:54 pm

Great Pics guys, deffinatly better then my, will get them posted up now, along with hopefully some video!

90733 · Post by **90733** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:14 pm

Right, here are my pics, took more video, so will get that done, here we are:

A Very nicely done Superior, brilliant infact, photos don't do it justice, you did a great job with this Laal'Ratty

A view over Waterslack, showing the position of the cinema ect..

Sir Robin, now gas fired!, at rest.

A very nice Taliesin belonging to a certain someone, a exceptional runner, almost slient!

The opening banner

Poor Thrang End Halt

Sidneys (Quarry Hunslet) Ffion parked up.
And to finish with, no SLR steam up would be complete with a picture of this certain railcar:

............Which manged to attack a RH? Linda.
Hope they've turned out ok, don't half the best camera, look out for the video!
And thanks Ian for the invite to your brilliant railway!

90733 · Post by **90733** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:52 pm

Here we are, the video, the video aint best, my camera hates filiming! But it's something:
http://www.youtube.com/user/The90733

SLRmidge · Post by **SLRmidge** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:42 pm

90733:52905 wrote:Here we are, the video, the video aint best, my camera hates filiming! But it's something:
http://www.youtube.com/user/The90733

Well I enjoyed watching it! Thanks to you & Quarry Hunslet for making the long journey to visit my railway.

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:52 pm

The Double Fairlie sounded fantastic!

90733 · Post by **90733** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:48 pm

SLRmidge:52914 wrote:
90733:52905 wrote:Here we are, the video, the video aint best, my camera hates filiming! But it's something:
http://www.youtube.com/user/The90733
Well I enjoyed watching it! Thanks to you & Quarry Hunslet for making the long journey to visit my railway. :D

Well Thank you for letting us come!

RSB · Post by **RSB** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:54 pm

A great looking railway and a superb selection of locos in use on the reopening - I'm impressed!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:00 pm

Fantastic stuff, looks like a good time was had by all. Some very nice stuff running there as well. The new bits of line are looking superb as well.

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:10 pm

Excellent stuff there! Nice to see it reopen, if anything I'd say the speed restriction was an under reaction - slow trains are better!

LMS-Jools · Post by **LMS-Jools** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:29 pm

Nice pics, nice vid, luvvly afternoon, lots of peoples and trains, lots of great nosh too lol
Many thanks to our host.

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