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The 2005 Summer Gala was held on the
weekend of Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st August.
We had lots of passengers each day and 7 locomotives in use on the Saturday.
Trains ran as advertised from 10.30 in the morning until after 10 at night
on the Saturday and 10.30 am to 5pm on Sunday.
Here are some pictures by Sam Felce that give a flavour of
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"Templecombe" is an electric locomotive and
visited the Railway from Oxfordshire for the weekend. |
These two pictures show "Templecombe" with the
riding truck and two mineral wagons starting the descent from Weir End to
Bridge Junction. |
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Another visiting loco from Oxford was No. 11, an
0-6-0T (live steam) locomotive here being driven by Chris Wilson whilst the
owner, Simon Cole acts as Guard. |
Our resident battery electric locomotive seen
here in its Class 20 variant did sterling work shunting wagons around at the
start and end of each day as well as hauling some passenger trains |
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"Titan" is seen here hauling our new articulated
wagon set from Smith's Knoll station. The driver is the Railway's
owner, Pete Smith and the Guard is Jack Taylor. The wagons share the
middle bogie and are vacuum braked. |
"Titan" and the new wagons again but top and
tailed with No.11 and the mineral wagons. The train is fully vacuum
braked. |
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As darkness fell the trains kept rolling.
All the signals are lit and trains carried head and tail lights.
"River Fal" is seen here at Riveside Junction on a top and tailed train.
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No. 11 sits at Smith's Knoll
station ready for the night's work. |
 No.11 with a
full head of steam waits for the signal as the moon comes up behind the
train |
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"Titan" and Driver James Aston on the turntable
at Weir End about to run round the train, |
AND FINALLY, "Titan" ready to depart Weir End
with a train of Empty Coaching Stock |
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The Team at Tretheake Mill Railway would like to
say a big "thank you" to all of the passengers who came and also the
visiting locos and their crews. We look forward to seeing you all
again soon.
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On Saturday 18th June 2005 we had a visit from
Dave Woods and his friend from Yorkshire with their blue Romulus loco.
Pictured here approaching "Greenhouse Crossing" from
"Smith's Knoll" are
John Ferrier on Asterix
Andy Crawford on Kathleen
Dave Woods on the blue Romulus
and Roger James on "our" Romulus "Titan".
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They are pulling a 3 wagon train with "Minor" the battery
electric loco on the rear. What the steam loco drivers didn't know was
that the regenerative brakes were on on the electric loco so the faster the
train went it became a lot harder to pull. We did manage to recharge the
batteries though! |
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