A day in the life of the Summer service 2021
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2021
- A message of thanks from the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways. Including a brief peak season update and a video celebration recording a day in the life of our railways in Summer 2021.
Great job from you and your team Paul. I’m sure you know that pushing through and managing change is one of the hardest things to achieve but you are making the best of all your resources and not afraid to try new things to see if they work or not. Hope all goes well and I wish I could assist more in some way from abroad.
Thank you very much for this. We had the pleasure of two days in 2019 on your railway. One day to Blenau and return and the next to Canaerfon and back. What wonderful days.
What a fabulous film! Thank you so much for all the skill and effort in making it. I keep on thinking - imagine if we could bring back the people who ran FR/NWNGR in the 19th century and see what they make of it all now.
My congratulations to the planner(s?) and makers of this excellent video. It shows a great sellection of the work it takes to run this unique combination of the Ffestiniog Rly with its small loading gauge, and the newer creation - the West Highland Rly - powered by those, comparatively, huge Garretts, re-patriated from South Africa.
that was a awesome Video and I loved it and I had a grate time on Monday it was grate to see the locomotives again and I am so grateful to all the Volunteers, staff. they have been amazing. I will be back in October for the Bygone's weekend
I would love to be on the Ffestiniog railway right now
Thank you for a truly splendid review. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole video, and it showed both lines at their very best. Well done !
Great video day in the life
Excellent , Very well edited and an extra bonus for me as i own a Roundhouse model of DLG ! ,Thanks for sharing
grand to watch - I enjoyed this
Well done. Lovely film.
Splendid stuff 👌👍😊 Puts my humble efforts in the shade!
Thanks, means a lot.😊
Wonderful, absolutely wonderful! Loads of detail and some superb photography to boot! So many questions I might ask so, if I may, please could I ask if there are any plans to refurbish or replace the doors to 5/6/7 roads at Boston Lodge? They look satisfyingly time served but perhaps there maybe a case for a life extension overhaul? Secondly (and I'm sorry to ask this as you must get so fed up with the question!) Please could you give us an update on any future plans regarding the much missed Alco, 'Mountaineer'? Those of us of a certain age hold her very in high regard and would dearly love to see her running again. I realise that she was known to be sporadically temperamental and that it would need a good financial case to make the exercise a worth while proposition but is there any sort of appeal planned that might lead to her overhaul and restoration to traffic? Keep up the most excellent work and thanks again for letting those of us who live a long way away, have such a fascinating and up-to-date view of the F&WHR.
Firstly, we're glad you like our videos, Have you noticed that we also have a monthly news programme called 'Moving Pictures' which has its own RUclips channel.
To answer your questions; the shed doors and indeed the whole shed is up for renewal in the not too distant future so fear not. The missing part of 7 Road door is to allow the swallows that nest in the shed out of hours access.
The Alco is on the list of locos to be restored and I believe their is a fund gradually collecting money for the overhaul. Virtually every part of the loco is life expired and of course when it last ran it was an oil burner. Gone but not forgotten.
The film referred to is in fact called "Festiniog Holiday" and is indeed a splendid production. I have a copy on Super-8.
Amazing. Now that Welsh Pony has been restored, will Princess ever have her chance to steam again?
Princess will remain as the only un rebuilt loco as an example of exactly how the small Englands were prior to preservation.
Is it just me or does Blanche's whistle sound like a black 5?
I have a question is the green tender outside welsh pony's old tender?
It has parts from it. It was widened and various other modifications made to it previously. Welsh Pony has a brand new replica tender.
@@FfestiniogWelshHighland ok because on my visit there was a tender that was green with the Ffestiniog logo but thanks for letting me know!
What a fantastic film. I must say I absolutely loved the scene of the Garrett leaving with the heavy load, a fantastic catch!
I don't suppose you have any PDFs available of that running sheet or others? I'm a developer for train simulator and I would love to create some scenarios for the brilliant route by SPRailways which could hopefully be sold at a small price to help raise more money for your railway.
~ Hi Sam, as the original route builder of the UKTS freeware version, I can tell you it is (or certainly was) a pig to make scenarios for as the AI always caused signalling issues! But I wish you the best of luck with your work on the SPR enhanced version, which has raised over £6,000 in support of the real railway thanks to Steve P and Xavier G for their work building the rolling stock, custom assets, and suchlike. Who do you develop for? If you need an FfR scenario tester, just let me know ;o)