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01.Andover Anchovy ticket!
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02.Scratch built Leaf Brusher passes through Red Rice station clearing the rails for our subsequent traversals..
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03.Planet petrol locomotive stands at Red Rice as BLS party board..note the Rollls Royce engine plate on the side!!
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05.Centre Cab battery electric sits on matching stock at Red Rice while the driver discusses routing options with participant!
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12.Murky Bottom.. also quite smoky!
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18.Clatford with 0-4-0 steam loco on our single carriage while the magnificent Darjeeling loco steams in behind us...
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19.Dargeeling 786 built 2018 the original 786 DHR 0-4-0ST built 1904 North British Loco Co. Glasgow UK based Tindharia
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21.View rearwards as we gain the 2016 extension towards Camden with Dargeeling 786 still simmering in Clatford station main
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23.Dargeeling 786 on the 2016 extension drawn up behing us as our coach has just derailed the original 786 DHR 0-4-0ST built 1904 North British Loco Co. Glasgow UK based Tindharia
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25.Our 0-4-0 gets steam up in Camden halt as the Dargeeling 786 approaches slowly to draw up behind..
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26. View rearwards as we finish traverse of the rarely used connection from Camden Halt towards Jurassic Park on the 2017 extension and Darjeeling 786 follows us...
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28.View forward on the 2017 extension approaching Jurassic Halt
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29.Kings Worthy works 0-4-0 paused at Jurassic Park halt on the 2017 extension...
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33. View forward now behing 786 Dargeeling entering Clatford station loop
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36.View forward passing through Clatford loop with the big lever set for the original route towards Fullerton Junction
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39.Upper Wherwell elevated line stationseveral trains awaiting...
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40.Close up of loco Silver Pea! made od Stainless Steel!
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43.View forward in the Canal cutting on the new section...
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45.Centre Cab battery electric stands in Wherwell siding awaiting the road to depart to main line...
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47.View forward taking the chord across to the inner loop at Coates Junc.
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54.Nev points out where the train needs to go and Godfrey points there too!!
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56.Form an orderly queue! BLS tour participants awaits a shuttle in and out of the carriage lines...
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58.Planet battery loco provides a shuttle between the shuttles either side Lower Wherwell just held off the buffers by the leaf brusher unit!
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59.View forward about to be propelled out of Wherwell siding through the platform and into the tunnel siding...
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62.Hand propellage centre or No.2 road Murky Bottom shed the watering can marks where the derailments happen!
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57.Godfrey drives the Ruston in and out of Murky Bottom shed road 1 note the carriage cannot go back further without the passenger's head meeting the bench!
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55.Murky Bottom with the sun streaming in as a train crosses the bridge ...
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93.Dargeeling 786 built 2018 the original 786 DHR 0-4-0ST built 1904 North British Loco Co. Glasgow UK based Tindharia storms up the gradient towards Upping Junction from Red Rice
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63.The big push to complete the putative 2018 extension still one panel missing and a lot of ballast needed...Tim starts tamping...
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64.The final panel is tried for size while the BLS Gen.Sec. and Editor shift ballast!
