Updates for our meetings have fallen almost a year behind, but as we are about to begin this years gatherings, your webmaster has some catching up to do! Looking back to last June, the weather was favourable for our June gathering at the Rhos and Betws. This involved some anniversary celebrations, with quite a crowd, plenty of food and sterling service on the tea and coffee provision, and of course many trains ran! We have had many meetings at the Rhos and Betws, new this time a turntable and an additional bridge to allow steaming up the line’s newly acquired coal-fired Linda…
Rhos and Betws Tramway
August ’23 meeting at the Rhos and Betws Tramway
For our first August meeting we returned to the Rhos and Betws tramway, and the rain returned too. Despite this, a couple of our group took locos out into the rain, and fortunately the rain then stopped for long enough for a great many more trains train – with battery electric, and manual and remote control steam doing circuits of the picturesque ground-level line. We enjoyed copious amounts of tea, cakes, and a delicious lunch, in the shelter of the conservatory. Then we managed to run even more trains before the rain resumed!
August ’21 meeting at the Rhos and Betws Tramway
Finally we were able to actually get together in an actual garden, and run trains together! That in itself was a cause for celebration; at this first meeting in 20 months we also remembered our friend Dennis. The R&BT tramway’s resident Double Fairlie has been named in his honour, and we ran a procession of trains in his memory.
October 19 Meet at the Rhos and Betws Tramway
For the first of our October meets we returned to the Rhos and Betws tramway. Despite the arrival of autumn, the weather was kind enough to give us a dry morning before steady precipitation set in over lunch.
May 19 Meet at the Rhos and Betws Tramway
For our May meeting we returned to the Rhos and Betws Tramway. This includes a large circuit with two stations, each with passing loops, so there’s scope for running in both directions at once! But without a block tokens, we mostly ran the same way… with up to 3 locos in steam at the same time.