The Beeches Light Railway
Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:24 pm
As promised, here are a few pictures taken earlier today at the Beeches Light Railway in Oxfordshire. It's a privately-owned narrow gauge railway which runs in a figure-8 loop around its owner's front and back gardens. The owner, Adrian Shooter, formerly chairman of Chiltern Railways, occasionally opens his gates to specialist groups with an interest in transport and/or steam railways and holds a running day. The locomotive was originally built in 1878 for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in India, although its tender and the coaches are modern replicas. The sun shone most of the day and it was a really super day out.
This is the main station building,a copy of the original Rinkingpong Road station ....
....complete with dual language name boards
At the kick-off, Adrian assembled all the guests to outline the day's timetable. As soon as he finished talking, there was a scramble for places in the train for the first ride of the day:
This odd looking beast is a modern replica of a vehicle which was once used for rail track inspections in the US. It's a Model T Ford on a railway bogie and was kept busy giving rides today.
And here's the little train in action:
Finally, for anybody who likes steam train sound effects, there's a brief video clip - my first ever attempt to use the 'movie' setting on my camera! I haven't worked out how to get it on to the forum, so here's a link to my album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/114551534402773637291/21June201402?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKqV--DL0aLN_QE&feat=directlink
This is the main station building,a copy of the original Rinkingpong Road station ....
....complete with dual language name boards
At the kick-off, Adrian assembled all the guests to outline the day's timetable. As soon as he finished talking, there was a scramble for places in the train for the first ride of the day:
This odd looking beast is a modern replica of a vehicle which was once used for rail track inspections in the US. It's a Model T Ford on a railway bogie and was kept busy giving rides today.
And here's the little train in action:
Finally, for anybody who likes steam train sound effects, there's a brief video clip - my first ever attempt to use the 'movie' setting on my camera! I haven't worked out how to get it on to the forum, so here's a link to my album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/114551534402773637291/21June201402?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKqV--DL0aLN_QE&feat=directlink