Installment 19 in a multipart pictorial depiction of a mid-Autumn morning stopping passenger service faux Heritage Rail Tour QuickDrive, from Crewe to Holyhead, on North Wales Coast Line, acquired during Steam's Winter 2023/24 sale. Having belonged to LNWR in pre-grouping days, I power the train with a favorite steam-era loco, Caledonia Works' LNWR "Greater Britain", No.3435 "Queen Empress" to be exact, seen in Lilac & Cream livery. Though Greater Britain looks to be a conventional 2-4-2 tendered locomotive it is, in actuality, a 2-2-2-2 three-cylinder compound loco. It pulls four LNWR coaches, the last of them an observation coach, which I failed to capture adequately. This installment sees us en route to and stopped at Llanfair. En route to Llanfair: as above: Stopped at Llanfair: Replenishing boiler water while stopped at Llanfair: Station platform detail, an image added to my Win10 Desktop Background TSC subfolder: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Installment 7 in a multipart chronological pictorial depiction of a faux "heritage" stopping passenger run QuickDrive, from Southampton to Bournemouth, on Dovetail's South Western Main Line: Southampton - Bournemouth. Motive power is Caledonia Works' LSWR 700 class 0-6-0 tendered steam locomotive. It pulls a short rake of LSWR coaches, which, if memory serves, are from GAD's LSWR 6-wheel Carriage Pack 1, sold through CW (but don't quote me). This installment captures us en route to and stopped at Beaulieu Road. En route to Beaulieu Road: Approaching Beaulieu Road Station: Stopped at Beaulieu Road Station: as above: Platform Scenic Detail: Stopped at Beaulieu Road Station: RWE2 (gimped), AP S&W2+Clouds+Veggies TO BE CONTINUED . . .
