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Amberley's Bagnall Bonanza - 11th & 12th July

Next Saturday and Sunday. we at the Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre are holding our annual Railway Gala.

The theme this year is Bagnalls to mark the completion of the ten year overhaul of 'Peter' - WB2067/1918. Visiting locos are 'Armistice' from Bredgar & Wormshill, 'Kidbrooke' from Yaxham (not 100% on this one - but we are hoping they will make it) and to make up the numbers 'P C Allen' from Leighton Buzzard (which is, yes I know, an Orenstein & Koppel!). All three of our resident Bagnalls, 'Polar Bear', 'Peter' and 'Wendy' along with Quarry Hunslet 'Cloister', will be in steam. (That makes 6, maybe 7, steam locos).

Museum opens 1000hrs both days.

We also have our Model Railway exhibitoin - a list of the layouts is on the website - and the 7¼" miniature line as well.
Look me up if you came down - always good to put faces to names.


["Wendy and "Cloister" are owned by the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust and are on loan to the Museum.]

Here's a picture of three of the Bagnall's from yesterday:

made-in-england

dunno if i can make this year Sad
MTA

I've just uploaded my pics from last weekend to my Fotopic site, I'm still knackered so a lot of rest is required!

http://simonking889.fotopic.net/c1725426_1.html
newts

You take it easy now Laughing
Always good to see your excellent pics Si Very Happy
Spokesmann

Excellent shots, I recognise a few of the locations there.
silverfoxsteam

Great shots Si - many thanks indeed.

Liked the one of PC Allen's footplate - was that a large bottle of meths?

Laughing  Laughing  Laughing
John Chapman

Excellent photos Simon, thanks for sharing them.
Mamod Collector

First class Simon  Very Happy
MTA

Thanks for the nice feedback, gents Very Happy I'm thinking of investing in an SLR as I have noticed that the quality when the pics are at full size has slipped ever so slightly...

Stephen, I didn't notice that until I looked at the pictures! I think it was to clean and degrease the frames and motion, but as to what the content actually is beats me Confused

Andrew Neish has sent me some very nice pics from the Sunday, including someone very familiar!



Making myself comfortable, no suspension and a hangover from the previous night (although I didn't tell you that) didn't help.



Sharing a joke whilst bird watching with one of the Bredgar Boys'.

I've also just received the 'gate figures' for the event; 477 for the Saturday (just under 200 down on last year, no doubt due to the weather) and 629 (about the same as last year) so not all bad!
SillyBilly

MTA wrote:
I think it was to clean and degrease the frames and motion, but as to what the content actually is beats me Confused

You've used trhe word degrease and judging by the colour it's probably degreaser.

I had an incident last week that involved green tinted degreaser, this is because one of the drivers put steam oil in the degreaser tin and didn't empty it out. Trying to degrease the shed floor with steam oil doesn't work....
steamyjim

Brilliant photos there Simon Very Happy
silverfoxsteam

SillyBilly wrote:

I had an incident last week that involved green tinted degreaser, this is because one of the drivers put steam oil in the degreaser tin and didn't empty it out. Trying to degrease the shed floor with steam oil doesn't work....


Honestly - you just can't get the staff these days!

I remember an incident in the early WHR days when some 'bright spark' put diesel in the gearbox instead of the fuel tank! The cogs got a good clean!
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