Tyseley Loco Works Open Weekend - June 25 & 26, 2011

Just back from a good day at the works Well done to all involved for putting on a good show.

Pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/24236352@N02/sets/72157627046031436/ - two below as 'teasers'!





Jon

 

Well, after a busy, action packed, cameo crammed day on Saturday at the Tyseley Locomotive Works Open Weekend here are the results! This year's event included the relaunch of a locomotive, short rides, vintage train travel and the oportunity to tour the workshops. It is me, or did this year's event seem far less crowded than it has sometimes been? It was most interesting to see L94 being recommissioned and, of course, the marvelous little displays on the shuttle trains! A super event & thanks to everyone who put so much time and effort into making the whole thing happen. You may (or may not) be interested in a few little 'souvenirs' of the event that I have produced:
17 photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/totally-transport/sets/72157627049277124/
9minutes of High Definition highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXadV170DGw
a small report on the open weekend: http://totally-transport.co.uk/tlwopen.aspx
I hope you enjoy these humble momentoes and that if you attended they will bring back happy memories and if you didn't go then at least you'll get to see what you missed! Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings, watch the video and take a look at the photos. Any feedback or the positive or negative varity is most welcome, just PM me, respond to this thead or drop an e-mail to feedback@totally-transport.co.uk

 

hello
some of my efforts from sunday can be found here at - www.stevebottrill.zenfolio.com
have they over ordered the paint for the pannier as the princess was half painted hence the lack of cabside / tender numbers/letters
there didnt seem to be many people about this year !!
regards
steve

 

the paint there using on lizzie is spare from Duchess of Hamilton. it will be finnished by this weekend for its trip on the shakespear. it was supposed to be continued today actually

 

It was a shame that the rail compamies didn't see fit to stop a few more trains at Tysley station on the Sunday - onlythe hourly service to stratford semed stopped there which made getting there by rail difficult if not impossible.

 

Nice collections of pictures.
How is the Bloomer coming on?

 

What about the Chiltern services running hourly to Paddington?

 

Didn't stop at Tysley.

No Sunday service on that line stopping at Tyseley.
Foolishly I didn't check but I parked at Solihull having dropped off my son at uni and just caught a train thinking it would stop - went straight through to Moor St where I discovered that there was only an hourly service on the Stratford line that stopped at Tyseley

Gave it up as a bad job..

my fault I admit for not checking

 

One of the half-hourly Chiltern services each hour were stopping at Tyseley both days. I know because I used them!

 

not according to the timetable

 

More Tyseley steam photos can be seen here, including the Bloomer replica and the Sharp Stewart 4-8-0 from South Africa:

http://andrewstransport.smugmug.com...Locomotive/17847856_tPdBnj#1364878646_ZqSgjX6

Tyseley diesels are in a separate collection:

http://andrewstransport.smugmug.com...tive-Works/17762535_H2g3Jj#1356424552_b8QRhZW

I also called at the Thinktank museum to photograph 46235 City of Birmingham:

http://andrewstransport.smugmug.com...ank-Museum/17778725_vWjh7C#1358069963_8sDvRRL

Cheers

Andrew N

 

Did you look at the special timetable for that weekend? Go to the chiltern website under "changes to train times" and then you can click the date on the calendar. Chiltern usually stop when there are Tyseley events on - at least you know for next time now.