During our 2011 holiday in the UK I spent a day around Boston Lodge, the workshop for the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. This is probably the only workshop in the world where you can find so many active articulated steam locomotives.
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2 As the signs at the entrance all said "Do not trespass" and I found no one to turn to, I could do little more than hang around the entrance. I tried to contact the workshop before my visit but got no response.
3 No 87 being prepared for the day
4 One of the diesels is used to drag the train to Harbour Station at the other side of the Cob.
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6 The weather was very variable. Occasionally sun, but rain was a constant companion.
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8 One of the Fairlies being readied for the day.
Boston Lodge is the only place in the world where you can get more than one Fairlie before the lens. There are three in this shot!
9 The gloss from a recently passed rain shower and the backlit workshop combined well to get this atmospheric scene
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26 Heading for Harbour Station
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29 The old toll house at the end of the cob
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31 Meanwhile at Harbour Station
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37 Crossing Brittania bridge on the first leg to Caernarfon