Paddy and the Garratt
and Taffy, Peter Pan, Ursula, Spirit et al...

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1 September 2007

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We've been here before! Yes, it's 1st September 2007, and it's the annual open day at Alan Keef Ltd, near Ross-on-Wye, and a "special" day on the 15" gauge line at nearby Perrygrove.

RFS L106 was built at Doncaster works to 900mm gauge for channel tunnel construction duties  0-6-0 diesel "Flynn", nearing completion, is being built for service on the Longleat Railway  The frames and partly-completed motion parts of 2-6-2T "Lydia", for the Perrygrove Railway  Jenny and Lindsay, Schoma 5239 and 5240 of 1991

MR 40SD502 of 1975, ex-Minworth sewage works  "Bill" - RH 221625 of 1943  Ex Post Office Railway locomotives

"Lady Jean" and "Lady Constance", HE 9334 and 9332 of 1994  Taffy in action  Peter Pan performs  3 generations of admiration for Peter Pan

New 0-4-0 vertical boilered "Paddy"

Starring at Keef's were old friends Taffy and Peter Pan, and newcomer "Paddy", a newly-built vertical boilered loco, plus much else of interest (as always) including a fine new diesel "Flynn" for the Longleat line, and the frames of "Lydia", who is to be a new 2-6-2T for Perrygrove...

The Bush Mill Garratt...where, after the obligatory pork-and-stuffing rolls, we went to see three locomotives in action - "Spirit of Adventure", Ursula and the 15" gauge replica of the 2' gauge K1 Garratt (ex-Bush Mill Railway, Tasmania), making its first public appearance. The day also marked the public launch back into traffic of Heywood's Ducal saloon for the Eaton Hall Railway, by none other than Sir Arthur's grandson...

"Spirit of Adventure" lays a smoke screen  Ursula in the woods  Launch of the saloon - Sir Peter Heywood  Heywood train

Meeting at Oakiron  Arrival at Oakiron  The Garratt at Rookwood

The Garratt on the loop  Another run past Rookwood  Garratt and train at Perrygrove station

Little more needs to be said - for further details, check out the Rail Diaries' previous visits, and the web pages of the sites themselves below

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Perrygrove

The 15" gauge K1 in action, and Ursula on the Heywood train

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