shredder1
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Heritage Shunter Trust Gala and Peak Rail. Sunday 8th September 2019.
A more leisurely start from Youlgreave YHA, breakfast and a couple of brews before departing for Rowsley and Peakrail and even then, I was still waiting for them to unlock the gates. The event started at 11.00, it had been two years since I was last at the Shunter Gala, and every year never ceases to please.
The star attraction this year was Class 06 D2420 in BR Green livery, the first 06 to be seen in BR Green in over 30 years. Also running on guards van rides were, Barclay 01, D2953 in a fresh coat of Mid Brunswick green paint as well, plus the 07001 and the PWM654 both being in BR Blue and last but certainly not least, the 02, D2854, and 04's, D2205 and D2284 , with resident industrial "Bigga".
I took a number of rides on the guards vans and went everywhere in the yards and depots, excellent value at £16, a big well done to John and the lads at the Heritage Shunter Trust, keep up the excellent work guys.
I later drove down to Darley Dale as class 44, D8 Penyghent, along with Former NCB industrial J94 design saddle tank was running on Peakrail and I wanted a few photographs of them going through Darley Dale and later from the A6 looking down on the track bed.
I later returned to the Shunter Trust and took another guards Van ride to the depot, as the sun had moved around by that time and I wanted to obtain a few more photographs of the various locomotives.
Returning to Rowsley South station I took a trip behind the class 44 down to Matlock and back, £8 for an all-day rover. Leaving Peakrail, I drove back up the A6 to Buxton for a few photographs of the present railway station, and was amazed to find the scale model of the former Buxton Midland station and finally another visit to Peak Forest and a pleasant surprise, a class 60 parked up beside the former railway station. Another hours drive and I was back home, it had been a fantastic weekend at two great galas.
Heritage Shunter Trust website, https://www.heritageshunterstrust.com/
Peakrail Website, https://www.peakrail.co.uk/
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A more leisurely start from Youlgreave YHA, breakfast and a couple of brews before departing for Rowsley and Peakrail and even then, I was still waiting for them to unlock the gates. The event started at 11.00, it had been two years since I was last at the Shunter Gala, and every year never ceases to please.
The star attraction this year was Class 06 D2420 in BR Green livery, the first 06 to be seen in BR Green in over 30 years. Also running on guards van rides were, Barclay 01, D2953 in a fresh coat of Mid Brunswick green paint as well, plus the 07001 and the PWM654 both being in BR Blue and last but certainly not least, the 02, D2854, and 04's, D2205 and D2284 , with resident industrial "Bigga".
I took a number of rides on the guards vans and went everywhere in the yards and depots, excellent value at £16, a big well done to John and the lads at the Heritage Shunter Trust, keep up the excellent work guys.
I later drove down to Darley Dale as class 44, D8 Penyghent, along with Former NCB industrial J94 design saddle tank was running on Peakrail and I wanted a few photographs of them going through Darley Dale and later from the A6 looking down on the track bed.
I later returned to the Shunter Trust and took another guards Van ride to the depot, as the sun had moved around by that time and I wanted to obtain a few more photographs of the various locomotives.
Returning to Rowsley South station I took a trip behind the class 44 down to Matlock and back, £8 for an all-day rover. Leaving Peakrail, I drove back up the A6 to Buxton for a few photographs of the present railway station, and was amazed to find the scale model of the former Buxton Midland station and finally another visit to Peak Forest and a pleasant surprise, a class 60 parked up beside the former railway station. Another hours drive and I was back home, it had been a fantastic weekend at two great galas.
Heritage Shunter Trust website, https://www.heritageshunterstrust.com/
Peakrail Website, https://www.peakrail.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/nick.melling.104/media_set?set=a.2417451924968979&type=3