Sat June 15th 2013, 7:30pm The new Cholsey Pavillion, Station Rd, Cholsey. Click here for map. Refreshments and bar available. Contact James Butler on 01491 651490 or our own Ian Wheeler on 01491 652295 for ticktes. Website: www.cholsey.info Traction, with … Continue reading
I’m very happy to report that my old piano has been sold, though for a fraction of what I think it was worth, to an instrument shop in Wiltshire. I hope that the eventual owners have lots of fun playing … Continue reading
Featuring: 6024 King Edward I: four last trips in February and March 5043 Earl Of Mount Edgcumbe: Bristol-Plymouth, through the Cotsworlds and the marathon 3-day trip to Edinburgh. Panniers 9600 & L94: day trips around the Leicestershire coalfield, to Melton … Continue reading
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Featuring: 34067 Tangmere on Shap and the S&C, by Southern and Western routes to Weymouth, on the Royal Duchy and three winter trains from or to Bristol. 35028 Clan Line with the VSOE Pullmans in Surrey, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and … Continue reading
The first two volumes of Mainline 2012 are complete: V0l 55, Southern Locos is ready to ship, and I’ve just put a 6 minute excerpt on YouTube, showing Tangmere hauling the Bath & Bristol in December. Vol 56, Great Western … Continue reading
It has been snowing here since early morning. Here are a few pictures taken during my lunch-break.
I’ve “remastered” Volume 28: The Great Britain II to produce a Blu-ray disc. When I produced the original, I cut the footage down to 90-minutes to fit onto a DVD without excessive image compression. With the greater capacity of Blu-ray, … Continue reading
“About time too”, you may well say! I’ve just finished work on the final three volumes covering 2011: Vol. 52, LMS Locos – Princess Elizabeth, Leander, 8F 48151 and a plethora of Black Fives; Vol 53, BR Standard Class 7 … Continue reading
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Three of the fastest and most powerful steam locos at work on the British mainline today. 71000 Duke of Gloucester on the West Coast Mainline and along the coast of South Wales. 4492 Dominion Of New Zealand (actually 60019 Bittern … Continue reading
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Featuring the two survivor’s of British Railways’ first class of Standard locomotives Fresh from overhaul, painted unlined black and without nameplates (as during her first few months in service in 1951), 70000 Britannia proved powerful and reliable during 2011. She … Continue reading
