Page 6: Little trains...
Scenes from two small railways in Staffordshire, recorded
in June 2004, and two more in the Forest of Dean, 4 September 2004. Full details are on "Geoff's
Rail Diaries"
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Part 1
- The Amerton Railway Steam Gala June 2004 |
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Star attraction at the 2004 Gala was the
West Lancs Light Railway's, "Irish Mail", ex-Dinorwic Hunslet (823 of
1903).
Irish Mail is seen
- heading the passenger, running anticlockwise
750k; 46s
- on the freight, out in the fields
711k, 45s
- pulling away from Amerton station with the freight
544k; 34
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Resident "Isabel"(Bagnall
1491 of 1897) rumbles along with an interesting "mixed
freight"
1,160k; 1m 15s
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Peter Pan (Kerr Stuart "Wrens" 4256 of 1922) accelerates along the straight from Amerton
station 1,208k; 1m 17s
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Pixie does the same...
696k; 44s
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Part 2
- Rudyard Lake Railway Steam Gala June 2004 |
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Visiting locomotive "E R Calthrop", a
replica (1/3 scale or thereabouts) of the Leek and Manifold original,
is seen in action,
- approaching the loop
977k; 33s
- accelerating toward the dam station with the 4.20pm departure
586k; 37s
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"Excalibur" scuttles along near the dam
556k; 36s |
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Sunlight , shade and "Merlin"
476k; 28s |
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"Merlin" gets away from the passing loop
633k; 40s |
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Part 3
- Keef and Perrygrove September 2004 |
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"Taffy" works the passenger train at Keef's
484k; 21s |
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"Pixie" reverses around the the curve, then hurries
back again, slipping briefly on the gradient 1031k;
47s |
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"Spirit of Adventure" climbs steadily to arrive at
the top station, Perrygrove 877k; 54s |
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Perrygrove's "Shelagh"
(really Ursula) traverses the north loop - the camera (and the
train) panning nearly 180˚ in the process.
Top: the full traverse, low bit rate -
1091k; 1m 10s
Bottom: just the last bit, passing the
station, lower compression / higher quality - 550k; 18s
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