May 18th
Our first day of having visitors, and what an excellent day it was. Even the rain held off, though it was frustratingly just overcast enough not to be able to run the solar powered track.
The Evensford & Midland Railway's Locobox Garratt did sterling servce throughout the afternoon.
It looks like the FR PW crew need to work on the lineside growth. They clearly have too much thyme on their hands.
BigJack's Edrig "George" was one of two Edrig's in steam, the FR's "Derby Sage" being the other. A rake of FR opens and SR vans.
The Evensford & Midland Railway's Otto (battery power, but I couldn't resist a little photoshopped steam) with a rake of mixed FR freight, passing some lonely tipplers whose engine hadn't managed to get out of the workshop that day.
The Otto and Edrig wait patiently in the sidings.
The Evensford & Midland Railway's Garratt rather dwarfs the FR's own "Derby Sage". Driver Fred is trying to not to notice.
The busy wharf area.
The Evensford & Midland Railway seems to have moved in.
"George" rounding the South Trenches station area. The Flatland Washes Railway Authority regrets that the station facilities are unfortunately limited at present. Passengers may shelter inside the water tower in inclement weather. A station building will be provided just as soon as finances allow.
May 27th
The planned open day for the Bank Holiday Monday suffered fatally from Bank Holiday Weather Syndrome. However, we'd got the Tuesday evening planned as well, and the world had dried up enough by then although the light was decidedly low so these photo's are a bit fuzzy. Visiting on this occasion were Sam's Roundhouse "Argyll", and Dwight's battery-modified "Konstanz".
A relaxed evening was had by all.
The Argyll did good service given that it had been in storage for quite some time, and had only been re-gauged that afternoon from 32 to 45mm.
However, it wasn't immmune to running out of steam. No matter, the ever constant Konstanz was on hand to recover the steamless.
- The Flatland Washes Railway
- Photographs copyright K Rolph.