I had a mixed day yesterday. The day started with fog and torrential rain but cheered up by lunchtime. This was good as there were trains on both the FR and the WHR which were all part of a private charter. A railtour had discharged its passengers at Llandudno Junction half of whom then travelled by coach to Caernarfon and the other to Blaenau, both trains then head for Porthmadog where all 400 people get off the trains, mill about and get back on the other train so that everyone gets to ride on both railways... if you see what I mean.
All this coming and going meant that Lyd and Taliesin and 143 were on the main trains, Criccieth Castle was station pilot and to add some excitement to the whole thing, Britomart had a seperate charter train that ran to Tan y bwlch and the back to Beddgelert.
I ran about with the camera and shot most of the comings and goings. The last movement was to be Lyd and Tal going back to Blaenau so I trotted off to the middle of the cob to get a nice long shot and some cob widening shots too. As the train passed me by I tried to pan round to get the train departing but tripped and fell over. In the process I twisted my ankle, hurt my knee and my pride and snapped a bit of the camera off. I didn't notice this last point until I was back in the office and by the time I had walked back to where I had been there was no sign of the missing part of the view finder. I got some nice pictures though.
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