Our portable track was out in the sunshine at Progress Rail open day at their South Queensferry site. For those of you that don’t know, (and until I visited I didn’t either!) Progress Rail are a large foundry business that produce all the manganese steel castings for Network Rail & export similar to America for Read more about Progress Rail Open Day[…]
A first for ESME was to be asked to provide the portable track for a wedding reception. With a the sun shining and ‘Morning Star’ polished to perfection, Robert, Russell and Phil put on a faultless event. The happy couple, Marie and Graeme Moyes are seated behind the locomotive ready for the off. In this Read more about Wedding Belle Express[…]
Weather forecasts, who believes them? The night before Met Office forecast predicted a wonderful sunny day. At 10:00 it was wonderfully warm & sunny, so much so that Robert was setting up a Parasol for shade! Our visitors arrived 30 minutes early, but we were ready, both ‘Grace’ & the tea urn were up to Read more about Bathgate Probus Club Visit[…]
After a comprehensive rebuild of his locomotive, Geoff accompanied by son Andrew, took it to Almondell for a steam test and run. We are pleased to report that it passed both with flying colours. Looking resplendent in the maroon livery ‘Sybil’ brightened up what was a rather dull & damp day. Pressure nearly at blowing Read more about ‘Sybil’[…]
On a gloriously sunny Friday Archie took his Kingscale 14xx out on the track for its second ‘shake down’ run. Owner & locomotive are now getting to know each other quite well which resulted in a very successful 4 hours of continuous running. After all that, engine Read more about The ‘Almondell Bunk’[…]
The first tickets for our first official schools visit were issued on Monday, 17th June to the pupils from Armadale Academy. In glorious sunshine our intrepid photographer took these pictures from an unusual position….
Following on from Robert’s involvement with pupils from Armadale Academy who were tasked with constructing a ‘mobile wagon with a difference’ as part of their second year Design and Make class (in the Craft Design and Technology Department) ESME were delighted to welcome them to our Almondell Model Engineering Centre where the wagons were run Read more about Armadale Academy[…]
James had lunch with some retired colleagues from Hewlett Packard and afterwards they visited Almondell for a ride around the track and a guided tour. John provided the motive power with his Feldbahn ‘Barbush’. It handled the load of three carriages with ease and the visitors enjoyed their numerous trips around the circuit. The weather Read more about Post Prandial Steam Up[…]
The club were invited to tour the Mitsubishi Electric factory in Livingston where they manufacture their Air Source Heat Pumps. Their hospitality was very generous and those attending had a very informative & interesting time. Judging by the comments related back to those of us unable to attend the system has had quite a profound Read more about Mitsubishi Electric Visit[…]
Archie took delivery of his limited edition 14xx from Silvercrest Models (produced by Kingscale Live Steam) in late 2018. With the addition of a GWR Inspection Saloon from 17D models the typical GWR set up was complete! A successful steam test in April meant that Archie was all set to take her out on the Read more about Almondell’s ‘Thunderbolt’?[…]
