Our first open day of 2022 and the rain held off! The cloudy, cool day did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of both the members and our visitors. Kris Mcalpine was up early to record the behind the scenes work that goes into getting the railway ready for running the train service: The event was Read more about May Day Public Open Day…..[…]
The 17th April was our second drivers familiarisation day prior to our 2022 open days. The weather was warm & dry as those involved with the exercise prepared their locomotives. (click image to start slide show) Meanwhile out on the track, the rolling stock was being assembled Time Read more about Riding The Almondell Circuit[…]
Young Adam joined his grandfather on a visit and gave the site the once over. It has been two years since his last inspection so there was a lot to see! Light refresments before we set off…. ‘Will Peter bring the the ‘Scamp’ back for me Grandad?’ Two ‘scamps’ together! ‘This is cool!’ Wow, a Read more about Junior Inspection…..[…]
Since our last open day in 2021 a lot of maintenance and development work has been ongoing to the infrastructure, rolling stock & members locomotives. Before we embarked on 2022’s events season it was felt that familiarisation days for members would be good idea to check out locomotives, rolling stock, electronic points, signalling and the Read more about Familiarisation Day……[…]
Daniel Coupe won the award way back in 2020 mid pandemic times. Because of this it was only March of this year when relaxing of restrictions allowed the award ceremony to take place. A small group of ESME members accompanied Daniel to the NRM, travelling down to York first class on the LNER Azuma. This Read more about Young Engineer Of The Year….[…]
More used to seeing Peter behind the regulator of one of his two steam locomotives he recently branched out into IC propulsion. Peter has been impressed with the club’s ‘Scamp’ & it’s ability to shift heavy loads. As a consequence he decided to build one of his own & a ‘reet’ neat job he has Read more about Newbie On The Track….[…]
With apologies to JMW Turner…… Members have been submitting more photographs of Richard’s weekend to the News Desk that the Editor decided it was well worth an additional feature. It may have rained, it may have been cold, but did we ENJOY ourselves! The steam effects were magnificent…… (click on image to enlarge) Read more about Rain, Steam & Speed – The South African Event[…]
It has been some years since Richard (our ‘Adventure Scot’) has run all his South African locomotives together since his gathering at Newliston….. That time it had snowed….. Richard takes up the story…… ‘Over the last month or so I have been very very busy working on my steam loco collection at Read more about South African Steam Up………[…]
Well, it wasn’t quite the CoVid free festive season we were expecting! Nonetheless, with the weather being mild & dry coupled with us being able to meet outside a few of us met up on the 28th December & the 2nd January for a ‘breath of steam’. December 22nd: ‘Grace’ was providing an ‘out & Read more about Post Christmas & New Year Steam Ups……[…]
The Santa trains at Bo’ness have been well attended this year which has meant good business for our miniature trains. Robert & his team of Cliff, George & Kevin were out on the track on the 19th with Robert’s ‘Morning Star’. It has been good to be back running the Read more about The ‘Star’ Of Christmas….?[…]
