Over the weekend of 28th April 2017 to the 1st May 2017 the Ffestiniog Railway held their Quirks and Curiosities event, this is the sequel to the event held in 2010.

In this film, we have action from across all 4 days of the event.

A lot of visitors and home fleet were in action, which is listed below All feature in the video, except if stated below:

Home Fleet of Locomotives:

0440T Double Fairlie ‘David Lloyd George’
0440T Double Fairlie ‘Merddin Emrys’
040T Hunslet ‘Linda’
040ST Hunslet ‘Lilla’ (in new ‘green’ livery)
040ST Hunslet ‘Britomart’
040STT George England ‘Prince’
040STT George England ‘Palmerston’
044T Single Farlie ‘Taliesin’
262+262 Garratt No. 143/87 (providing WHR Service Trains)
040 Baldwin Diesel ‘Moelwyn’
Spooners Boat


Visiting Fleet of Locomotives & Rolling Stock:

040 Vertical boiler loco 'Fernilee' (visiting from the Penrhyn Quarry Railway)
040T Kerr Stuart ‘Diana’ (Visiting from the Bala Lake Railway)
040 Davenport Locomotive Works ‘Davenport’ (Visiting from the Statfold Barn Railway)
040T Couillet Loco Works ‘Chuquintanta’ (Visiting from the Richmond Light Railway , Kent)
RailCar ‘Galloping Goose’ (Visiting from the Statfold Barn Railway)
240T W.G. Bagnall & Co. ‘Polar Bear’ (Visiting from Amberley Museum & Heritage Museum)
Speeder Fairbanks Morse of Wisconsin ‘Busta’ (FR Volunteer Restored)
Speeder RailRunner (Visiting from France)
Quadbike
044 Peter Beever Built 7.25″ Aneirin
Minning 040 ‘EIMCO 401’ (not featured)
Battery Loco ‘Spondon’ (Visiting from the Ashover Light Railway)
040 Hissing ‘Sid’ (Visiting from the Statfold Barn Railway) (not featured)
Self Propelled ‘Wickham’ (Visiting from a FRPS Member)
040 Vertical Boiler ‘Perserverance’ (Visiting from the Launceston Steam Railway)
Panther Wagon (Privately Owned) (Not Featured)
Diesel ‘Muir Hill Fordson’ (Privately Owned) (not featured)
4wPM loco ‘Campagne Locotracteur’ (Visiting from the Richmond Light Railway , Kent)
040 ‘Steamplex’ (Privately Owned, from the Groudle Glen Railway)
040 ‘Samson’ (Visiting from the Beamish Museum)

As you can see, there is a lot of locos, and an intensive timetable was in operation throughout. Look out for the night trains and also the cavalcade!

Filmed on a Panasonic VXF990

www.railadvent.co.uk

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