No Sprinter to write it up this year, so I will do it!
Friday 4th August
Got up at 0800, got ready etc & got the 0943 BTM train to Bath, after using my commen sense & realising a h-o shot of 37417 on 6c01 was posiable, I got a HST from Bath, so I got that, (good shot as well) On arrival at Bristol I went over to platform 1 to get the 1050 to Cardiff, 158963...
Got in to Cardiff at 1135 & got my Valleys Day Ranger, 158843 comes in vice PACER on the 1201 Bargoed service, so bashed that all the way, a FNW 153 was on the Bay shuttle, after getting to Bargoed, me & the driver had a talk then I went back on it to Cardiff Queen Street, where I did a 153 bash to Bay, then on arrival at Queen ST foted the 158 before taking a Pacer back to Central,then HST to Newport
On arrival at Newport, 37417 was pulling in on 6c02 & I got some cracking shots of it, before joining the Yorkie & co. - Palmer on there HST going to Cardiff. Max, Yorkie & everyone else went to check in to there Hotels, Yorkie came back to meet me in Central, while everyone else joined 425 at Queen ST for the run to RHY, where we got a Stagecoach Volvo to Merthyr (having got to the bus stop at RHY early thanks to my directions
) We then walked to Merthyr Tydfill Station & got my FIRST pacer of the day back to Pontypidd where Palmer met us, then of to Aberdare, we then went back to Queen ST & bashed Pizza hut before going to Cardiff Bay & doing Nick W's wanted flyover Bash.
We all retired to our Hotels, before waking up in the morning:blob2:
Saturdays in Part 2
[EDIT]
I was up & out by 9, me & Max bashing Sainsburys before a Pacer bash to meet dad at CDF, the rest of the the attendees who hoteled had only just woke up... We saw them off at Cardiff, while me & dad waited for Mark & co. to arrive, 43165 & 43004. We all said our hellos & got seats, unlike last year, pretty unevetfull to Swansea where we had a Air leak but it got fixed in 10 mins!
After Whitlend I started to help the train manager, I put the reservations out, kept an eye on doors & helped him clean up a bit, while the rest were enjoying themselves, very rewardiing work with free complimentys for the journey back towards england, after a bit of trouble, me & Mark moved away & tucked in to some pringles, much to Jordys happieness when he joined us, after much rambling about how there HST home was canxed. Mark & I decieded to get of the HSt at Cardiff & pick up some grub, Pizza Hut calls to my ears, nose, stomoch & mouth, so we went to bash Pizza Hut before getting the 1950 from Cardiff to Cheltenham, after arrving early in Goucester, I could Easily make it home from Cheltenham on the 2112 Voyager back to BTM.
DIESASTER, it does not exist, BUt the 2052 was late, thank god, I passed the mobs
Voyager on the Gloucester Triangle, then took a 150 back from BTM to TRO
So, what did you get up to at Bristol Parkway for over an hour?
Friday 4th August
Got up at 0800, got ready etc & got the 0943 BTM train to Bath, after using my commen sense & realising a h-o shot of 37417 on 6c01 was posiable, I got a HST from Bath, so I got that, (good shot as well) On arrival at Bristol I went over to platform 1 to get the 1050 to Cardiff, 158963...
Got in to Cardiff at 1135 & got my Valleys Day Ranger, 158843 comes in vice PACER on the 1201 Bargoed service, so bashed that all the way, a FNW 153 was on the Bay shuttle, after getting to Bargoed, me & the driver had a talk then I went back on it to Cardiff Queen Street, where I did a 153 bash to Bay, then on arrival at Queen ST foted the 158 before taking a Pacer back to Central,then HST to Newport
On arrival at Newport, 37417 was pulling in on 6c02 & I got some cracking shots of it, before joining the Yorkie & co. - Palmer on there HST going to Cardiff. Max, Yorkie & everyone else went to check in to there Hotels, Yorkie came back to meet me in Central, while everyone else joined 425 at Queen ST for the run to RHY, where we got a Stagecoach Volvo to Merthyr (having got to the bus stop at RHY early thanks to my directions
) We then walked to Merthyr Tydfill Station & got my FIRST pacer of the day back to Pontypidd where Palmer met us, then of to Aberdare, we then went back to Queen ST & bashed Pizza hut before going to Cardiff Bay & doing Nick W's wanted flyover Bash. We all retired to our Hotels, before waking up in the morning:blob2:
Saturdays in Part 2
[EDIT]
I was up & out by 9, me & Max bashing Sainsburys before a Pacer bash to meet dad at CDF, the rest of the the attendees who hoteled had only just woke up... We saw them off at Cardiff, while me & dad waited for Mark & co. to arrive, 43165 & 43004. We all said our hellos & got seats, unlike last year, pretty unevetfull to Swansea where we had a Air leak but it got fixed in 10 mins!
After Whitlend I started to help the train manager, I put the reservations out, kept an eye on doors & helped him clean up a bit, while the rest were enjoying themselves, very rewardiing work with free complimentys for the journey back towards england, after a bit of trouble, me & Mark moved away & tucked in to some pringles, much to Jordys happieness when he joined us, after much rambling about how there HST home was canxed. Mark & I decieded to get of the HSt at Cardiff & pick up some grub, Pizza Hut calls to my ears, nose, stomoch & mouth, so we went to bash Pizza Hut before getting the 1950 from Cardiff to Cheltenham, after arrving early in Goucester, I could Easily make it home from Cheltenham on the 2112 Voyager back to BTM.
DIESASTER, it does not exist, BUt the 2052 was late, thank god, I passed the mobs
Voyager on the Gloucester Triangle, then took a 150 back from BTM to TROSo, what did you get up to at Bristol Parkway for over an hour?
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If we'd missed it, we could have got it elsewhere (by chasing it), but we really wanted to cover the whole line... 
