Hi all. Today saw me once again down at the Riverside Miniature Railway operated by members of the Burton Model Engineering Society for April 'Steam Up' day which are held on the third Sunday of the month from April to October from 11am-pm weather and volunteer availability permitting. For more information see the club's website here. Unlike more usual trips out to heritage railways which usually entail a 6am wake up, today would see a 7-8am wake up which is rare due to the nature of visiting heritage railways.
I arrived at the club at around 09:30 am and found the gate to the site open, on my arrival I discovered one of the members Dave was on site preparing his engine for service. I quickly leaned my bike up against the side of the club house and went to help Dave with moving his Steaming up kit from his car to the steaming bay for his engine.
The next task would be to fetch the water hose pipes from the containers to and set them up one in the steaming bay and the other near the water tower, situated next to the raised level track platform area. Soon after Keith, the club chairman and his wife arrived followed by several others, soon there was a fair amount of locos in the steaming back including a lovely 5 inch model of a N7, seen in the photo below. I'm not gonna ramble on too much as I don't have enough photos to do a full 'steam up' report blog post on here sadly. Please click the link here for a full post from a previous steam up from August last year.
During the day there were many conversations had between all who attended including myself as well as a chance to have go at driving the club's 7 1/4 inch ground level Battery diesel shunter hauling passengers. Over all a fantastic day, thanks again to all who made it enjoyable..Till next time..cheers all, Jake...
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