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<\/a>There\u2019s been three lots of playing with the real thing but it started with some of the toy variety. September starts with Guildex, the O Gauge Guilds two day bash in Telford.<\/p>\nIn my logic York to Telford, well that’s half way to Wales so I head for Boston Lodge after the show for some driving on the FR although I have learnt my lesson now and not booked to drive on the Monday. Some rest is needed.<\/p>\n
The week turned into mostly a week of double engines We had a `moment’ approaching Garnedd Tunnel wondering if the microphone would still be there on the way out.\u00a0We also got DLG and the three NGG16’s done over the weekend.<\/p>\n It wasn’t all Lyd though as I did find an Axe to grind one afternoon.<\/p>\n I did make one very silly mistake though. With Annie coming down to join me for the weekend I booked us in at Moorlands which used to be the Woody Bay Station Hotel and is just through the fence from the engine Its all very quiet at stupid O’clock in the morning!<\/p>\n I think its fair to say that we had a great Here are just a couple of photos<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lyd really did look the part on the L&B coaches and got a lot of admiring looks, loads of photos.<\/p>\n There are plenty of pictures of the gala online but I would recommend getting a brew and watching this one for a good look at what went on<\/p>\n<\/a> with a day driving the Square followed by three days of Soupy. Well it would have been all very routine except for running out of coal on DLG and having to arrange for the coal man to meet us at TyB on the way down. We were taking no chances the next day though and laid in a spare supply.<\/p>\n<\/a>The end of the week was noteworthy as Paul Chetter joined us to record as many engine sounds as possible for DCC decoders. The one I really needed is the one for my L&B Manning Wardle kit and for the imminent Heljan one in 009. I drove Lyd on the Saturday and we had it miked up for sound.<\/p>\n<\/a>After that it was home for not very long before we were off to Devon to unload a loco and look after it for a week. \u00a0Lyd went to the L&B for their gala and I went down to unload it, prep it and drive it thro<\/a>ugh the gala weekend.<\/p>\n<\/a>shed. The usual problem when staying in a B&B when playing with steam engines is that the early start means you miss the second B. With our other two crew staying in Lynton I ended up as the lighter upper each day whilst they had their breakfast. When they turned up I got to go back to the hotel for mine.<\/p>\n<\/a> time and Lyd was very much admired. The form for each day of the gala was that Lyd and Isaac took it in turns working the passenger trains on a one every half hour timetable. Around lunch time each day we got to go on shed for an hour as the freight train demo was supposed to do its stuff. At this moment Lyd became a mobile BBQ. Friday was sausages, Saturday was sweet & sour chicken wraps (Kevin can’t do the wraps so he had chicken fried hula hoops straight from the shovel) and Sunday was another sausage day fresh from the Lynton food festival.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n