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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, I've only a small select group of followers on here, so here's a little piece of breaking news about my garden model railway. Important enough to break my code of only posting B&W images.
This is quite a monumental event. The first rails were laid on this line on 02.02.2002.
End of an era.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 19d

Back in Sibiu.
I do love my time here. Even when it's raining.

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 26d

Home once more. This is a nice place to be.

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Sep 12

It's been a chuffing while!

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Aug 15

Back in Romania for some well earned rest and relaxation. (And a good dose of narrow gauge steam!)

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Aug 6

I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the original Roger Marsh OGWEN.

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Aug 6

Watching the harvest from our garden vantage point.
Maybe for the last time?

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Jul 19

Wow! The Awdry Extravaganza on the Talyllyn Railway really has to be seen to be believed. Seventy seven trains over three days, and every one filled with joyful passengers. That's quite a gala, and quite a challenge for the volunteers, staff, supporters and organisers to pull off. Well done!

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Jul 15

Not much going on here these days. It seems to be fading away. Meanwhile, here's No.3 crossing Dolgoch Viaduct on a very blustery day.

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm well overdue a return to Aberystwyth. However, I will be back in hills above Tywyn before too long. (There's a beer festival in Tywyn next weekend and those ales and ciders won't drink themselves...)

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Jun 27

So,I built a log store out of some fence panels which I'd taken down some thirty odd years ago, and a few other bits and pieces that I'd subsequently stacked up in the barn in the "that'll be useful some day" pile.
Just to prove that they have indeed eventually become useful.
Pleased now!

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Jun 21

"No Trains Today."
My 'get-up-and-go' appears to have got up and gone and has left me behind. Let's see if I can manage a few days of doing absolutely nothing and not feel guilty about it.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Jun 17

Walking the Mawddach estuary.

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 19

Monochrome Monday, with The Mule out on a coal delivery on the distant Llechfan Line.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 18

A good outcome.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · May 18

Thank goodness for that!

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 17

Hmmm, I don't know if you can see this, but it's taken overhead just now, with a hand held phone on a night setting. The (not very) long streak was a satellite passing through the shot.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 12

It was quite literally raining stair rods up at Abergynolwyn today as a cloudburst greeted an afternoon Footplate Experience Train chuffing its way up the line.
#Talyllyn Railway.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 9

They're fluture in Romanian.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 8

Work in Progress.
#Landrover

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 6

I assume 🐼's fireman was sent to obtain the QS-Aber token.

moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 6

Rails in the Grass.
There's two little long term pet projects of mine, both of which may actually come to fruition this autumn. One is 120 miles away, the other is 1542 miles away. I need to be driving both of them though to make them happen. The easy one is the closer of the two, but maybe too easy

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 5

Shades of Owd Ratty in their 150th year.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · May 2

Afternoon steam up after a few hours of somewhat overdue routine maintenance.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Apr 27

I've been tasked with creating a plan to sort out this level crossing. The railway is currently disused, but we plan to restore it. Trouble is, this is not just a very busy road crossing, there are NATO military convoys, including tank transporters, crossing here six day a week. I'm out of my depth.

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · Apr 25

Having a Corris sort of a day today.

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