Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways - 'Scene Thru The Lens'
Picture Desk - October 2009
1st October 2009 to 31st October 2009
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04.10.09: Hunslet 2-4-0STT ‘Blanche’ captures the attention of walkers, as it heads across the Cob with the 11:45 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog...
04.10.09: Hunslet 2-4-0STT ‘Blanche’ rounds Boston Lodge Curve as the train starts the climb towards Blaenau Ffestiniog...
07.10.09: Double-Fairlie ‘David Lloyd George’ steams towards Porthmadog with additional carriages for the 10:15 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog...
15.10.09: Double-Fairlie ‘Earl of Merioneth’ leaves a smoky trail in its wake, as it leaves Porthmadog and crosses the Cob with the 10:15 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog. In Boston Lodge Yard smokes curls lazily from the chimney of ‘Taliesin’, being prepared for the next train...
15.10.09: An hour and a half later - the early morning gloom has been replaced by strong sidelight, and the tide has nearly reached its lowest point, as Single-Fairlie ‘Taliesin’ races towards Boston Lodge with the 11:45 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog...
17.10.09: The low autumnal sun produces a stunning golden glow on the far hillsides as ‘Palmerston’ heads up the valley with an early morning train of slate waggons, leaving a long exhaust trail in its wake...
17.10.09: Double-Fairlie ‘Earl of Merioneth’ approaches Boston Lodge with the 10:15 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog, beneath a backdrop of the old slate wharves and houses of Porthmadog...
17.10.09: Double-Fairlie ‘Earl of Merioneth’ is about to plunge into the shadows as it steams round Boston Lodge Curve with the 10:15 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog. By contrast, the village of Borth y Gest in the distance is bathed in glorious sunshine...
17.10.09: In Boston Lodge Yard, Fireman Tim Elsby is busy polishing the brasswork on Single-Fairlie ‘Taliesin’ as the loco is readied to work the 11:45 train...
17.10.09: The sun has nearly risen above the hillside behind Boston Lodge, as ‘Taliesin’ sits over the pit raising steam for the day ahead...
17.10.09: Driver Alan James prepares to move ‘Taliesin’ to the coaling wagon, with the cabside reflection a testament to the crew’s cleaning of the loco...
17.10.09: Alan James slowly reverses ‘Taliesin’ off the inspection pit, with the low autumn sun shining through the steam rising from the loco...
17.10.09: Driver Alan James ensures the coal bunker is topped-up before ‘Taliesin’ heads off to Harbour Station...
17.10.09: Alan James brings ‘Taliesin’ to a stand on Boston Lodge Curve so that he can collect Fireman Tim Elsby, who has just reset the Pen Cob points...
17.10.09: Duty Supervisor Richard Hanlon and Fireman Kev Pye look on as Driver Llyr ap Iolo brings ‘Palmerston’ (hauling an ailing ‘Criccieth Castle’) towards the Pen Cob entry to Boston Lodge Yard...
17.10.09: ‘Palmerston’ heads onto the Outside Pit Road in Boston Lodge Yard, so the loco can be coaled before heading back up the line with an afternoon train of slate waggons...
17.10.09: Llyr ap Iolo and Kev Pye shovel coal into ‘Palmerston’s tender from the ex-SAR B-wagon stabled alongside...
17.10.09: The still waters of the Afon Glaslyn reflect the flanks of Moel y Gest, as ‘Taliesin’ sets off across the Cob with the 11:45 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog...
17.10.09: ‘Taliesin’ heads across the Cob with the 11:45 train to Blaenau Ffestiniog, with the old slate wharf next to Harbour Station prominent in the background...
17.10.09: Alan James takes ‘Taliesin’ round Boston Lodge Curve, with the old Toll Cottage visible below, as the train starts the climb towards Blaenau Ffestiniog...
17.10.09: Fireman Andrew ‘Apprentice’ Foulds peers from the cab, as ‘Palmerston’ accelerates away from Harbour Station with a train of slate waggons...
17.10.09: ‘Palmerston’ heads away from Porthmadog with a train of slate waggons bound for Dduallt. The waggons will then be detached and run back to Minffordd under gravity - recreating the way that slate was originally transported from the quarries along the Ffestiniog Railway...
17.10.09: ‘Palmerston’ steams across the Cob towards Boston Lodge with the train of slate waggons. The crew of brakesmen riding on the waggons will control the speed of the gravity train as it rolls downhill on the return...
20.10.09: Driver Llyr ap Iolo oils round ‘Earl of Merioneth’, as Fireman Richard Hanlon removes clinker that has built up in the loco’s fireboxes...
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