Forest Fields Railway June Steamup

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Forest Fields Railway June Steamup

Post by laalratty » Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:55 pm

As is tradition, the second Saturday in June saw the first steamup of the year on the Forest Fields Railway in the Southern Lake District. Mike had added to the spiral section yet again to a new upper terminus handily located beside where the food is kept at their steamups. This I believe finally takes the FFR to its highest planned point, I'd say getting on for a metre above the lowest point of the main circuit. Here are the pics
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My day started with picking James up at Lancaster Station, once we arrived he soon had Britomart in steam. It is seen here pulling away from Bouth Station on the main circuit.
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Rhoda from the Ingleton Mountain Railway climbs the grades on the main circuit
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Curlew from the SLR North sits in the goods siding on the first station on the spiral section
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Curlew passes the Fairfield Railway's Millie which is on the final climb to the upper terminus
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The Millie on the way back down
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Urien runs into the new terminus at Hawkshed. Running round did involve an amount of hand shunting with my 6 carriage train
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Having run top to bottom, Urien rolls into Bouth
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Rolling down the hill on the main circuit
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A spiral shot, Urien above Sir Robin
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James also bought along Snowdon, which went double heading with Urien before Urien ran out of gas
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Snowdon runs backward uphill
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Double Furness pair, the Millie leads Sir Robin
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Top and tail shays, not often you see this!
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Russell runs into Bouth
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Russell pauses before assaulting the spiral
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The Fairfield Millie gently simmers in the loading dock at Bouth
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A first for the NWAG, an Accucraft Mortimer at the summit of the circuit
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PTLR sam bought along his Archangel Darj which ran late in the day
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The Darj brings the last train of the day down the hill
Thanks very much to FFR Mike for a superb afternoon, and for booking the weather again!
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Post by 90733 » Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:09 pm

Great Pictures, thanks for sharing, it does look an impressive railway!
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Post by Big Al » Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:20 pm

That looks like a good day out on a very nice looking track I like the idea of gradients add's to the fun...............
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Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:44 am

Have to say it was an excellent day! Unfortunately I didn't get any phots, but needless to say Brit and Snowdon had the cobwebs blown off them with a few runs up the spiral!

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Post by Narrow Minded » Mon Jun 10, 2013 11:05 am

Some cracking shots there - many thanks :D
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Post by hussra » Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:57 pm

Most enjoyable, thank you! Some really lovely views there.

Hand-shunting at the terminus reminds me of my volunteering days on the Talyllyn, putting together the General Appendix, and in particular the day two of us spent measuring rolling stock for the reference sections. The GA lists loco, carriage and wagon lengths in feet and inches...
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