What have you done today

[CaptainK]

I went to the Railways 200 whistle off event at Bishops Lydeard on New Years Day. As predicted, the weather before NYD was excellent, the weather after NYD was excellent. Both days I have to work on. BUT on NYD itself when I had the day off and could have done any number of drives etc with my Corvette - of course it absolutely chucked it down that day. So I took the wife and child to Railways 200 in the family car, and proceeded to wake up the child. If you watch closely in the video on WSR facebook page of the whistle off, you can see in the bottom left hand side someone with a pushchair with moving away near the start. That's my wife's claim to fame

 

[Chuffer]

I bet that sounded fantastic , I know many Heritage Railways were doing that but as you say , the weather couldn`t have been much worse if it tried ! There will be lots of 200 years of railways celebrations in the UK this year including a big event in August at the Alstom Works at Litchurch Lane , Derby which was originally the site of the Carriage Works on the huge Derby Locomotive Works that dominated the town and now sadly mostly gone as with Doncaster , Crewe and Swindon . The Alstom Works will be open to the public showcasing modern rolling stock as well as invited steam locos . I am really hoping that we get 70013 `Oliver Cromwell ``s boiler back from contract repair asap so we can get it back on the frames and wheels , steam tested and run in by then . It would be a big deal for our group as `Ollie` is famous for having hauled the last British Railways operated steam loco hauled train on August 28th 1968 when BR ceased all steam operations . He would make a perfect contrast to the working replica of Locomotion Number 1 that hauled the worlds first public passenger train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825 . As the pinnacle of British loco desing `Ollie ` was built at Crewe in 1951 ( my birth year ) and would demonstrate 126 years of progress in loco design . I am up for that gig if it comes off !!

 

[Chevrolet]

The delayed Brookland New Years Day meeting. My "faves" from the day:

 

[Nassau65]

Unusual and nice to see a mid year convertible with its hardtop on. Even better as it’s in Nassau Blue. Fantastic number on it as well.

 

[Chuffer]

All very nice . Love that Cobra with the fast back hard top .

 

[Chevrolet]

All very nice . Love that Cobra with the fast back hard top .

That Cobra looked fantastic! had a "427" badge on the side. Dont know if it was an actual "factory car" or replica. Brooklands Motor company/AC Heritage is on the Brooklands site. They had an open day today.
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