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Modelers Lounge => Time to relax => Topic started by: Squiffy on December 22, 2014, 07:18:25 AM

Title: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Squiffy on December 22, 2014, 07:18:25 AM

I hope you will enjoy these photos that I took in the summer, at the Apedale Valley Light Railway, near Newcastle Under Lyne, Staffordshire, England. The AVLR is a 2-foot gauge railway museum that specialises in industrial and WW1 military railways. For the TTT event they invited other vehicles and re-enactors. The Great War Display Team were asked to attend but they were otherwise engaged.

It would have been the icing on the cake to have a dogfight above the railway but hey ho...

The fact that the armies of both sides of the confilct used hundreds of miles of 2ft. gauge railways to supply the lines isn't something you see much about among the dozens of TV programmes about the Great War but this interesting event combined railway equipment and displays from historical groups and road vehicles.

Rolls Royce armoured car
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT01.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT01.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT02.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT02.jpg.html)

Foden steam lorry
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT023.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT023.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT05.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT05.jpg.html)

40HPSimplex petrol 'tractor' loco
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT04.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT04.jpg.html)

McEwan Pratt petrol loco
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT03.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT03.jpg.html)

20HP Simplex tractor and B-class wagon
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT08.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT08.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT06.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT06.jpg.html)

16th Lancers training demo
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT012.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT012.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT011.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT011.jpg.html)

Replica tank
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT014.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT014.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT013.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT013.jpg.html)

US-built Baldwin loco, as used by the British and US armies
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT010.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT010.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT017.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT017.jpg.html)

Another 40HP armoured Simplex
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT019.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT019.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT018.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT018.jpg.html)

20HP Simplex
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT020.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT020.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT022.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT022.jpg.html)

French infantry
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT07.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT07.jpg.html)

British infantry
(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT09.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT09.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT016.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT016.jpg.html)

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/soddit36088/TTT015.jpg) (http://s92.photobucket.com/user/soddit36/media/soddit36088/TTT015.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Des on December 22, 2014, 07:53:31 AM

Thanks very much Squiffy for posting these wonderful photos, they are all extremely interesing.

Des.

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Nigel Jackson on December 22, 2014, 08:07:03 AM

Fascinating photos, Squiffy, thanks for posting them. I feel that I'm learning so much from inputs like this.

Best wishes
Nigel

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: eindecker on December 22, 2014, 08:44:58 AM

Thank you for those wonderful photos. It is constantly brought up how much we do not know about such a recent historical event as WWI.

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Mark on December 22, 2014, 12:39:40 PM

Thanks for the great photos!

Mark G

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Steven Robson on December 22, 2014, 08:06:26 PM

Yep, great photos Squiffy, thanks for sharing.  I enjoyed these very much.

Cheers

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: WarrenD on December 24, 2014, 01:57:08 AM

Trains, steam power, WWI militaria, and living history . . . . what more could a man want but an alcoholic libation and a good cigar??!!  :o ::)

Man, I put together three WWI impressions back in the day when I was active doing living history and reenacting, but never got to use them.  :-\  I would have loved to have attended this, but the plane ticket would have been too pricey.

Thanks for letting me live vicariously through the photos Squiffy!

Warren

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: jknaus on December 24, 2014, 11:23:52 AM

Way cool. Thanks very much for posting those up.
James

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Cimmerian on December 24, 2014, 08:22:16 PM

Great set of photos, thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: KitRookie37 on December 25, 2014, 05:53:12 PM

Hello to all,
Excellent ! Thanks for sharing.
Best regards.
Alain.

Title: Re: Tracks to the Trenches
Post by: Rob Hart on December 25, 2014, 11:39:19 PM

Really interesting photos. I had no idea most of those machines existed.