For years my photos have been all over the place, on 2 hard drives plus other external drives. A 1.5TB drive at under £50 seemed a good idea & I have now fitted it in place of the 500GB d-drive. All I have to do now is try & get them all sorted. At least I have several spare drives now to keep copies of all the photos.
I think it was 18th December when we had that heavy fall of snow. There were traces of it in our garden until just a few days ago and even on Thursday morning when I took KC for a walk I saw a few small heaps of snow where people had cleared it from their drives. Then of Friday morning another covering of snow, which soon turned to slush. Today – it was all gone.
My cup of tea went cold as I watched the action!! D3022 was shunting the EMF sales coach & other stock from the siding adjacent to the car park then back into platform 1. The track in the siding needs to be relaid, don’t think there was much wood left in the sleepers.
Last service trains at Bewdley for nearly 3 months, so had to make the effort! Arrived at Bewdley at about the same time as the 11.54 trains. 42968 was on the train to Bridgnorth & 7802 to Kidderminster. Plenty of time for lunch before seeing 7812 on the next train to Kidderminster.
That’s it for service trains until February 12th when the line reopens between Bridgnorth & Highley, then on March 26th the whole line will be open.
Only about a month since the last update, looks like I have to rack my brains to upgrade the gallery software again. Oh well, stops me getting bored….
So if the galleries go offline, I’m either upgrading or done something wrong!!!
D8188 was in use to move stock from Arley and then to take more wagons down the line. The other locos were working the service trains.
Such a long time since my last photo update I’d almost forgotten how it was all done!!
D8188 heading the grotto stock from Arley
We made the effort to get here earlier today to see all 4 trains. Musn’t forget the Class 20 was in action as well.
D8188 was seen arriving with the stock from Arley, which had to be moved in advance of the engineering works, this included the 3 grotto coaches, 2 Siphons & 2 tankers. Next was 7802 on a train from Bridgnorth, then 4566 from Kidderminster. As soon as 7802 was clear the Class 20 was away from platform 3 to couple up with the wagons to form another train towards Arley. Once the section to Arley was clear the 20 was away.
Time for lunch before the arrival of the next 2 trains. 7812 was in first with the diner, then 42968 on the train from Bridgnorth. Only one more day of trains before the major engineering works start.
Happy New Year!
We squeezed into the buffet, which was doing good a good trade, just to have sandwiches today. Unfortunately we were not there early enough to see the trains at 11.54 but did see 42968 on a train to Kidderminster at 1.13 and 7802 on the 1.44 to Bridgnorth.
