An early start in the pub today today, is it too early to be sat at the bar at 7.30am? Well, I was drinking coffee and videoing the removal of the glass doors and windows in the end of Spooner's. Spooner's, of course, used to be the goods shed and these glass doors are the replacement for the wooden doors. The reason the doors were coming off? So that captive England 0-4-0 Princess could be released. Next year is the 15oth anniversary of steam on the FR and Princess was the one of the first four locos on the line. She will be cosmetically restored and go travelling as an ambassador for the railway including a six week stay at Paddington from St David's day.
I didn't just have a cup of coffee in front of me, the trusty Sony was there too as you can see.
Progress was steady rather than swift, here you can see the metal slides used to move the loco in line with the doorway.
Once Princess was back on the rails she was towed back to Boston Lodge by Kerr Stuart, Stanhope which has stayed on since Quarrypower.
As soon as the Fire engine which is standing in for Princess was in place and on video I beetled back up stairs and uploaded the days footage and then edited it down from about and hour to just over eight minutes. A bit of a rough cut but I wanted to get it rendered and uploaded before the afternoon was over, it took just under an hour to render to a wmv file and then slightly longer than this to upload to Youtube. Anyway here it is...
I didn't just have a cup of coffee in front of me, the trusty Sony was there too as you can see.
Progress was steady rather than swift, here you can see the metal slides used to move the loco in line with the doorway.
Once Princess was back on the rails she was towed back to Boston Lodge by Kerr Stuart, Stanhope which has stayed on since Quarrypower.
As soon as the Fire engine which is standing in for Princess was in place and on video I beetled back up stairs and uploaded the days footage and then edited it down from about and hour to just over eight minutes. A bit of a rough cut but I wanted to get it rendered and uploaded before the afternoon was over, it took just under an hour to render to a wmv file and then slightly longer than this to upload to Youtube. Anyway here it is...
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