I can't believe that it is so long since I last posted on here. Needless to say I haven't been doing nothing, far from it. The Easter rush which is supposed to die down hasn't and so the shops like the trains have been mad busy. Nothing to complain about but 'spare time' has been in short supply.
The Driver's Eye View disk is getting nearer completion, in fact disk one is ready to go in the boxes, the covers are printed, so are the disks. I'm just waiting on getting a final correction of the route names for the down trip and then it can hit the shops.
With the weather continuing to be fabulous I'm hoping to get the second section of the WHR in the camera this week. Fingers crossed. We've got a different microphone to mount on the camera which should help get a good sound track without the use of a separate sound recorder. Watch this space.
The year in the life 2013 is getting bigger by the minute and may end up as a three disk epic as the work on the cob widening is threatening to consume a hefty chunk of disk real estate.
Since following Griff Rhys Jones and his film crew about I've been out on several projects worthy of note. The first will add a few minutes to the Cob Widening chapter which was when The Cob was closed one evening so that a concrete pump and mixer lorry could pump the concrete into the shuttering to form the bases for the new signalling. Not glamorous and it was cold, too.
The railway played host to some youngsters who play in a school Steel Band so not being one to miss out on a dance I popped over to Pen Cei to video them play.
The sun carried on shining and this made my next task a pleasure. Lilla and Hugh Napier with a selection of FR slate wagons spent the weekend in Llanberis on the Llanberis Lake Railway. Both these locos were Penrhyn quarry machines. Penrhyn and Dinorwig quarries were huge rivals so to see PQR black in the very heart of Dinorwig at Gilfach Ddu was quite something.
And here is the video. There will be a longer version on the Year in the Life 2013.
The Driver's Eye View disk is getting nearer completion, in fact disk one is ready to go in the boxes, the covers are printed, so are the disks. I'm just waiting on getting a final correction of the route names for the down trip and then it can hit the shops.
With the weather continuing to be fabulous I'm hoping to get the second section of the WHR in the camera this week. Fingers crossed. We've got a different microphone to mount on the camera which should help get a good sound track without the use of a separate sound recorder. Watch this space.
The year in the life 2013 is getting bigger by the minute and may end up as a three disk epic as the work on the cob widening is threatening to consume a hefty chunk of disk real estate.
Since following Griff Rhys Jones and his film crew about I've been out on several projects worthy of note. The first will add a few minutes to the Cob Widening chapter which was when The Cob was closed one evening so that a concrete pump and mixer lorry could pump the concrete into the shuttering to form the bases for the new signalling. Not glamorous and it was cold, too.
The second was a chase the train in the rain job when Bagnall, Isaac which Boston Lodge have been restoring for use on the L&B went for a run up the WHR with sister WHHR loco Gelert. Gelert's boiler ticket ran out at the end of June so the trip took place not a minute too soon. Unfortunately the weather was foul which limited the run. I got soaked to the skin and despite the camera's rain coat it got pretty wet too. Both of us have come through unscathed.
Isaac on the train and Gelert waiting to join it
You can see the video for this here...
The sun carried on shining and this made my next task a pleasure. Lilla and Hugh Napier with a selection of FR slate wagons spent the weekend in Llanberis on the Llanberis Lake Railway. Both these locos were Penrhyn quarry machines. Penrhyn and Dinorwig quarries were huge rivals so to see PQR black in the very heart of Dinorwig at Gilfach Ddu was quite something.
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