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GCR Winter Gala 2010

Discussion in 'Galas and Events' started by lewis.maddox, Dec 9, 2009.

  1. pmh_74

    pmh_74 Well-Known Member

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    Sorry to contradict you Tom but whatever the Sectional Appendix says, this rule is not enforced!

    We ran a gala a couple of years ago at which a 'ballast train' ran, this comprising of a selection of vacuum-fitted hopper wagons and carried only one brake van, at one end of the train. So in one direction the brake van was immediately behind the engine.

    Out of interest, to count as a 'fully fitted' freight does the brake van itself need to have vacuum brakes (as opposted to a through pipe plus valve)? Because only one of ours has.

    The other way of running freights with only a single brakevan is, of course, to shunt the van to the opposite end at each end of the line. But for a timetable of the intensity of that which we ran last weekend, that is impractical.

    As for wagon colours, grey=unfitted and bauxite=through piped or fully fitted, with the additional note that the 'swan necks' on the ends of the vacuum pipe are painted white for through piped and red for fully fitted vehicles. But this was BR's system, pre-BR it was anybody's guess (the LMS for example used to paint everything grey, then after about 1936 started painting everything bauxite instead - the colours meant nothing). In preservation, paint is at the whim of the vehicle owner and hence we have most of our 16T minerals in grey (because that was the most common livery) even though they should all now technically be bauxite; these are the most obvious examples but there are others. Incidentally the through-piped 16T minerals have never carried bauxite because the through pipes were fitted at the GCR - so what livery is really authentic for them anyway? Some of the others were converted to vacuum by BR so have carried both liveries during their lives, whereas others were built fitted and only ever bauxite (until the GCR painted them grey!).

    I could go on... ;-)
     
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    Part 2 now up
    [video=youtube;UUt-DAQKTK8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUt-DAQKTK8[/video]
    click to start and click again for full screen.
     
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    The GCR now report approaching 4000 visitors over the three days, and turnover of around £68000.

    How lucky they were with the weather! Could have been a financial disaster if the weather had let them down.
     
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    [video=youtube;wNz_RRPvVKs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNz_RRPvVKs[/video]

    Final part in HD, thanks to the new version of Coral, now support mp4 HD, as a result there will be a lot more HD file size now being practical.
     
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