Sunny Summer Saturday at the SLR South

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laalratty

Sunny Summer Saturday at the SLR South

Post by laalratty » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:13 pm

Usually we have found in the NWAG that August steamups can be poorly attended affairs, what with members on holiday or staying away because of "domestic authorities". Not this one!! The onset of summer weather and the promise of lots of food, plus the fact the SLR south hasn't held a full NWAG steamup for nearly 3 years seemed to tempt out the majority of the membership. This lead to a variety of locos even with the heat clearly affecting some members (oh no hang on SLRmidge isn't normally with it anyway :lol: )
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Normally its the grand finale, but this time things got started with the ANLR/PTLR double header with Morgana leading Russell, which is starting to rack up some milage
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Lady Pamela visiting from the Poolend Garden Railway. An attempt to run the Mamod Vertical boilered Brunel didn't appear to go well
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The regular visiter from Preston, meths fired Lady Anne "Cantankerous", which wasn't being so Cantankerous today and enjoying the warm weather
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Morgana passes Silverdale Junction
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A moment at Silverdale Junction
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The PTLR's Locomotion Railbus, which misbehaved itself somewhat
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Green Darj from the Coniston Railway
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Honestly, I hadn't seen a Merlin Mayflower at a steamup before at the begining of July. A month and a half later I've seen two! This is another ebay purchase for the Lynmouth and Barnacle Bay railway, who have already got through several locos thanks to Ebay (including making tidy profits on a couple of them.....!) It ran ok for a while, before becoming a failure due to obscure reasons known only to those the driver would tell!
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Russell was out with the last train
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End of the day steam
Many thanks to Pedro de Hooton of the Silverdale Light Railway for holding the steamup and laying on the magnificent spread of food, which I think everyone enjoyed very much!

Narrow Minded

Post by Narrow Minded » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:23 pm

Some great shots from what sounds like a cracking day!
I reckon the change from the recent miserable weather might have also helped the turnout (but definitely the food ;))

SLRmidge

Post by SLRmidge » Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:52 pm

Yes, it was a really grand steam up apart from a few pesky insects and laalratty, of course! Nice pics.

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Post by hussra » Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:09 am

Love the half-cab Millie.
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