ELR Winter Steam Event (23/24 January)

cload over the whole of the UK, both days, but their is a chance of it breaking in the west, as long as we don't get much water I will be happy, ignoring the the type in you hand there.

 

Depends which weather forecasting outfit you look at now, one has unremitting cloud cover, one has sunny spells for both days.

Luck of the draw....

 

Fog ? Bring it on !

Well it was quite cold and foggy - I gave up in fading light after the dub-dee 14.00 ex Bury diagramm - but what a day !! Well done to all at the ELR and the KWVR for turning out 90773. Wonderous!

 

The shot of the Dub-Dee is suberb despite no sunshine being present!

 

Thankyou ! *blush* Was well worth the wait and, it must be said, there were a bunch of nice, friendly people in the gallery too

 

A small selection of pics from a testing day in terms of weather: http://david1984.fotopic.net/c1806964.html , 44871 really looks the business.

 

I too had an enjoyable day. I decided it would be best to head back to Leeds last night rather than early this morning, but even then I still missed the alarm to get over to the Lancs for the charter... Never mind, maybe next time.

Anyway, having missed the charter I decided to stay until lunch and did a few shots around Burrs, Brooksbottom & Irwell Vale. Had a lovely day, many thanks to the guys at the ELR.

I've uploaded 3 shots from today, however I had to restrain from anymore due to our new upload policy, but they'll be placed on the winter DVD available at the end of Feb.

Video shots available here

 

BR Black weekend on the ELR 23 January 2010

The common factor among the four main engines at this steam event was that they were all in BR black livery, and very fine they looked. The rare visitor was the Riddles WD 2-8-0 from the Worth Valley, whilst Ian Riley's second Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No 44871 was making its first gala appearance. The dank misty weather did no-one any favours, but it was a sound start to another steamy year in 2010.

See 12 pictures at http://pjhrailpics.fotopic.net/

Peter, on a cold dark Manchester evening
http://pjhrailpics.fotopic.net/

 

Despite a rather overcast day, it all went pretty much to plan so thank you to everyone who came along and supported us today. More of the same tomorrow hopefully.

Regards

 

Some brilliant fots/vids guys. Gonna go back tomorrow and see what else i can get,still figuring out the HD,i just dont understand how to do it,so if someone could do an idiots guide to uploading in HD to YT or if they know of one already please do inform me!!

Here is my (lineside) footage from today,the on train/station stuff will be put up tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B_2xvMVtww

Cheers,
Mark

 

Thanks to the East Lancs guys for a great day, especially the many freight runpasts in the gloom at Burrs with the WD, tremendous stuff. Good to meet fellow Nat.Pres. members Mark (Alberta45562),
Jeff (James Martin) and Mike30A out and about yesterday. With some excellent video and photos already posted, here's my video from Saturday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0CHJJXlsII

 

Well done and thanks to all involved with the gala. Enjoyed the mini freight charter (thanks Nigel V) -- but couldn't cope with too may early mornings like that.
Here's my contribution from Saturday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUm5CRdHy9k

 

Nice to meet you again Austin, just watched your video on YouTube, very well filmed in the difficult conditions.

My collection from yesterday is now on my webiste.
http://www.jeff-albiston.fotopic.net

 

Did the passenger trains appear reasonably well patronised?

 

Rain and poor light stopped play today and I whimped out at lunchtime. I only hope the weather improved this afternoon, especially for those who travelled long distances to get there. ELR can reflect on a great job, well done. Hope passenger receipts are healthy!

 

Yesterday seemed very good on loadings. Today, the 1st two seemed quiet but the numbers on the WD hauled train looked healthy. May have improved as the day went on -I hope.

 

Trains were well loaded yesterday, especially considering it wasn't a very good day weather wise. Strange how it seemed dull and misty almost everywhere along the line exept Irwell Vale which seemed bright, even almost summy most times I passed.
Had an excellent day and got a few nice pics aswell as scoring the WD and 5 for haulage. Only gripe would be lack of water in the train toilets virtually from the start of the day.

 

Had a great day out yesterday and enjoyed the photoshoot in the mist & gloom at burrs immensely (same conditions as last year - added a little atmosphere i thought - Big Thxs to Nigel v for organising it.
A few pictures just uploaded here - http://john-robinson.fotopic.net/c1807321.html

cheers John

 

No-one did the night shoot??

my shots are on Pprune or the UELR Gallery pages

 

Tricky conditions but ELR did a great job, nice to back at east lanc's after getting rained of every time I tried last year.

Just posted the first part of a two parter covering Saturday.

[video=youtube;7EcA9jnqSB0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EcA9jnqSB0[/video]

Click to start and click again for full screen.