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In that pic of Blanche, what is the carriage behind it called? Is it for the ffestiniog?

cheers, daniel
 
I think I know why he's grumpy...
in that shot that car is the WHR buffet car, that I re-skinned into NWNGR colors (using Moel Tryfan's color palette) I was being careless (and angry, because I was trying to get the extra wheel to go away) and accidentally put that coach in the picture. What I meant to do was just get a shot of Blanche, but took the shot too wide, so it ended up in there... :(
and if thats not why you are grumpy Kevmt I'm sorry anyway. I didn't mean for that to show up.

thanks for the response in the other topic though:D
 
Think of it this way Kevin, your models are so wonderful and useful to us that no one could possibly resist reskinning them. ;)

Cheers,
John
 
so 3830, anything new on the FR? I was thinking that eventually we could do a team effort and make the Welsh Highland, or Penrhyn.

To anyone who might know; what happened to the Penrhyn Railway, that it just up and left its engines on a siding? I know that the FR bought Blanche and Linda, but Stanhope, Lilla, and the others were just left there? to rot!?!?!
If only I had been 17 back then, I would have asked for one for my birthday:D maybe I'll donate money to the Penrhyn for my birthday this year (I plan to live in Wales one day, or go there for the summer:D) Volunteering there would be a nice change from school; maybe before college I'll go and live in Wales for a year. Just wondering...
 
The Penrhynduedraeth quarry railway closed pretty much as soon as the quarry did, as there was then no need for the trains to run any more. It would probably have started o slow down once slate traffic from Porthmadog stopped.

The FR did buy the sister locos, I think they also bought Charles, though that may have been at a later date, and it was then passed to a preservation group. Lilla was bought by the Bala Lake railway I think, as were a few other hunslets. Many were left for at least a few years before being recued...or left to rot(I don't actually know how many, if any, were left to rot) However some of this information is probably wrong.

Anywho, volunteering on the FR is great fun. There's a great social life. If you're under 16 you are very much restricted as to what you can do. if you're 14+ you can do 'kids training week' in summer, which is how I started volunteering. You basically do alot of small tasks that help the railway in general, such as electrical work, and genral repairs on buildings etc. You can't work on locos until you're at least 16. You can work on buffet (serving snacks etc on the train) from 14 too I think.

Cheers

Chris
 
I think Charles was bought by someone else, as it is up in Canada somewhere. There are also some quarry hunslets here in the USA some where. I intend to find them, perhaps. What I really want to do is find a Hunslet like Britomart, and restore and run it. Thats what I'd really like to do. I wonder if there are some just sitting in sheds rusting away up in Wales. or if someone would sell one to me, how much could a rusting, non-used engine cost? I know that the Talyllyn bought ET and SH for £50 a piece or something like that. Weren't Linda and Blanche bought for around that (I thought £75 or something) but back then that was alot of money wasnt it. I wonder... how hard could it be to find one..:rolleyes:
 
Kev beat me to it! Lol

If you're really interested, you can buy a brand new quarry hunslet for around £100,000. (Or something like that) :D

Cheers

Chris
 
On the subject of the Penrhyn Quarry: Does anyone have an idea of what liver Lady Madcap might have been in? My guess is a deep red or maroon color like the other hunslets.

Lady Madcap is near finished. Just needs a proper coat of paint and a script.

Cheers,
John
 
I lived in aberystwyth,wales for five years and on various days off did a lot of poking around in various disused quarry's and slate mines. I never found any locos although i did find some interesting bits of machinery , a few rusty old boilers of various types and what was left of some well rusted rolling stock.
I like to think however that out there somewhere there is a rusty old Hunslet sitting in a long forgotten shed hidden in lots of overgrown undergrowth.
;)
 
Moojgoo said:
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thats what I was going for:D

£100,000!!! thats like $193,000 U.S.D.!!!! :eek: Well when I get rich , or just save lots of money I'll go buy one.

there has to be some kind of engine buried somewhere, waiting to be found, but I presume that restoring it would cost around the same as buying a new one. Anyway my birthday is coming up and I asked my parents for a 16.5mm model of a bagnall locomotive from wrightlines, its as close as I can get to the real thing for now:D
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kevmt said:
The days of buying locos for £50-75 have sadly long gone.

Kevin
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but what if you were to find one, who would you buy it from?:confused: I presume the owner of the railway (or former railway), or land, correct?:confused: they couldn't be too expensive, I mean they are practically piles of metal, just sitting around causing waste. They would need some TLC, and love:) (and a new coat of paint among other things)
 
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