Crikey, I've been busy in the last couple of weeks. Since I did the shooting for Fred we've had the FR autumn gala known this year as Classic Ffestiniog. This basically meant three days of intensive service on the FR including half a dozen gravity trains and freight workings and all sorts.
Once the weekend was over I had managed to get about 3 hours of video again but I really didn't feel it would justify a stand alone DVD this time and I was right. Once I got a chance to edit it down I got it to just over half an hour.
Once the weekend was over I had managed to get about 3 hours of video again but I really didn't feel it would justify a stand alone DVD this time and I was right. Once I got a chance to edit it down I got it to just over half an hour.
Waiting for a train to cross the bridge at TYB, a classic FR view if ever there was.
A gravity train rattles past Minffordd yard.
On Sunday the longest ever slate train in the preservation era was run with 52 waggons, this is just about as many as will fit in the station loops and makes an impressive sight. I haven't done a You tube edit of the whole weekend yet but I did do a quick and dirty Friday package.
On the Monday after the classic FR weekend a special slate train to Blaenau was run in conjunction with the rebuilding of the centre of town. The 2 slate waggons and small Hudson Hunslet which have been plinthed in the car park have been renovated and repainted in Blodge and have been reinstalled this week. Notwithstanding any of that it was a good excuse to take Merddin and a small slate train complete with brake van all the way to the top of the line. Unfortunately the weekend's good weather had changed to vile dampness so the camera spent the day in its raincoat.
Waiting at Groby Junction
Waiting at Glan y Pwyll
While the service train came and went the slate train took shelter in the sidings at Glan y Pwll. The train crew were happy to do some run pasts while I shot some video and Chris Parry took some cracking stills. The grey weather and the historic surroundings really suited the slate train.
Today I finished editing Classic weekend and Andrew Thomas helped add subtitles we then drove up to Blaenau to shoot the loco and waggons being craned back onto their new ground level plinth. Having stood around for and hour in the freezing cold it finally turned up and very slowly got plinthed.
Back in Port and I finished the cover and the first version of the finished Year in the Life 2012. I now need to check the whole thing for any hiccoughs and spellink moshtiks and then we can start duplicating it and put it on sale. Nice purple cover this year... watch this space.
Back in the studio tomorrow to finish the music for the introduction to Year and probably start the next piece for the Year in Snowdonia project. I also brought the camera home in case the weather is nice and I can pop out and get the finishing shots of Autumn colours in the sunshine.
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