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This afternoon, James (Dolwyddellan light rail) made the long trip over the pennines by rail to visit my Afonglas and Nant Llywyd Railway, and perhapes most importently give his new loco its first steaming
I also invited along SLRmidge, whi came with his own Lady Anne and Rheidol carriages

First out onto the line was James' Edrig, Pheonix. He it is on a light engine exploriatory run

Passing Ty Pren with a short train

Guillimot passing the other way

Guillimot steaming up through the woods from Glanyrafon

Snowden, as the loco is to be named, makes its first brief run up to Nant Llywyd in reverse

Snowden brings a test train into Afallen

Same location, other directon

We then double headed our accucraft locos that had started maroon, but been repainted black. Pheonix leads my Superior

Ready to attack the hill

Lady Annes ready to double head

A double header on 6 carriages with Urien was a nice little running in turn for Snowden

Urien and Snowden depart Afallen

Looking over the fence near the upper loop points

Approaching Glanyrafon (photo taken by SLRmidge)

Attacking the bank into Afallen (photo taken by SLRmidge)

A final shot of the pair at Afallen (photo taken by SLRmidge)
As it happened the gas ran out on the pair just in time to get James back to the railway station in time for his train
I hope James and Midge enjoyed themselves

Great Pictures, and looks like fun, Snowdon is looking good. Btw, everytime you post pics of you line it makes me jealous

Great pics laal! Ill have to post mine up tomorrow as i dont have time tonight, just got back in from running Snowdon on blocks! thanks for a great day!

Great set of photo's - the line's looking grand and so is the stock
Interesting how the play of the light makes Snowdons dome look different through the day

Wheres the triple headed Lady Annes ? lol
Looks like you had fun and the weather held of well too.

Damn work or I oculd av been there too.

Narrow Minded:55990 wrote:Interesting how the play of the light makes Snowdons dome look different through the day

Shhsssssshhh, I don't think anyone else has noticed!!!

Please remember the dome next time James!

I've found that interesting as well Narrow Minded, I never knew the light could do such a thing! :lol:anyhow, here are some of my pics from the day:

The Baugley is sent round on a test run







A busy sight on shed



To be named Snowdon in the sunshine



A pair of Lady Anne's



Pheonix then takes a passenger train round





back on shed later on



SLRMidge then turned up, so we had 3 Lady Anne's!





Superior reverses onto the train through the forest



Pheonix joins as well









Pheonix pretending to be an oil fired loco again, and of course, we still had the odd mishap....





the train pulls into Afallen



















Then Urien and Snowdon are prepped to go off shed to double head



















Many Thanks for a great afternoon Chris! and I hope I didn't bore you all too much with so many photos!

Cracking pics James, and you've given me some ideas for new photo locations

Excellent pictures I enjoyed them immensely!