Event AS in the Community: all steamed up for the New Year

[chaseracer]

At Chasewater Railway on Saturday, a nice owd giffer with a Mazda Bongo Friendee asking for directions to Bridgnorth got us thinking about our next day out...

 

http://www.svr.co.uk/

 

Meet at Kidder, lunch in Bridgnorth, mosey back?

 

[Lord Sterling]

Yes!

[red5]

What date ?

 

chuffa chuffa...

[chaseracer]

On Saturday 10th October, A1 Class locomotive No. 60163 'Tornado' is operating... #justsayinglike 

 

http://www.svr.co.uk/calendar2015.pdf

[Inspector Morose]

I might be persuaded to dust off the sideboard for that one.

[Junkman]

Will there be cars auctioned off?

[chaseracer]

We could do the auctions first... or we could spend all day playing with steam trains!

 

[chaseracer]

YO, Midland Massiv - and any other AS thermally-agitated-dihydrogen-monoxide perverts!  Severn Valley Railway's running steam on NYD...

 

http://www.svr.co.uk/CalendarTimetable.aspx

 

Who's up?

[bub2006]

Who what when?? Now?

[Pillock]

Steam? Ewwwww. No glorious diesels?

THESE ARE MODERN TIMES YOU KNOW.

[chaseracer]

They're doing diseasels as well, if you're that way inclined (filth!)

 

Bub - stand down, panic not, this is a suggestion for the ASMM New Year's Day Experience.  The clue's in the thread title... 

[bub2006]

My phone doesn't show full thread titles if they are long. My apologies. Thank you fir clarification

[Pillock]

Steam trains merely turn water into hot water. I've got a kettle that does that.

Diesels turn DINOSAURS into BEAUTIFUL NOISE. That's magic, as Paul Daniels once said about something unrelated.

[chaseracer]

Y U HAV NO SOLE??

[Inspector Morose]

There's a Deltic in the diesel gala this year. 55002 in green, no less.

 

Bridgnorth has a chip shop, a pub that serves proper beer and a cliff railway too. What's more to like?

 

A date, a date, my sanity for a date!

[Pillock]

Deltic and chips, the way to my heart.

[Inspector Morose]

Salt and vinegar (strokes) with that?

[dollywobbler]

Well, this probably makes more sense than my own idea (see News thread). I think I'd rather pick a station and stay there rather than ride the line though. 

[chaseracer]

A date, a date, my sanity for a date!

 

January 1st.

[bub2006]

Yes I'm definitely in for this. Times?

[dcd1979]

I'm in sounds like a good day

[Inspector Morose]

January 1st.

At least it'll be open then, unlike the usual cafes. I would suggest Bridgnorth as the go to station. Plenty to see, somewhere to eat and, if I hadn't mentioned this before, A CLIFF RAILWAY!

[bub2006]

Did you mentions cliff railway?

[chaseracer]

Why did nobody say anything about the cliff railway?

[chaseracer]

Steam from Bridgnorth at 1020 or 1220 Zulu.  Agree with DW's very accurate implication that going all the way to Kidder would be disappointing...

[Pillock]

Steam? Ewww.

[chaseracer]

Sir, please Sir!  Can we go in the Sideboard, Sir?  Can we, Sir?!

 

 

[dollywobbler]

The only slight issue I have is that it's the day after New Year's Eve, which probably means going to bed a few hours before I'd need to get up. On the plus side, no morning-after effect for me because I don't drink!

[bub2006]

Where are we meeting? Railway car park?

[chaseracer]

Yep.  Reasonably sized car park at Bridgie.