So Much for Steam Trains ...

Well that was Saturday - loads of "tidy up" - we've got the builders in and we need to keep on top of stuff/dust/general sh*t else we're an entire floor "out of biz" - and that floor includes the kitchen (aaaaarrrrgh !).

Ho-hum-tidy-up-done - while Mrs Smiffy goes to birthday bash (workmate's one year old youngster's "one year old birthday party") I'm off out to do a bit of "EuroChamps" - oops forgot - England aren't "innnit" therefore all pubs are watching the cricket believing it's England (i.e. South Africa v New Zealand - check out the details ref Pieterson, Ambrose etc .. if people think they're watching England .. ha !!)

Anyways - in the "Railway" @ Greenfield - democracy at work (viz "I'm the guy who spends the most in here") implied cricket then Formula 1 sh*t (people DID walk out - I kid you not) - however Geoff tells me that "Princess Elizabeth" -the train - as in came through about lunchtime and is due back around 1830 ... hmmm ... time to get back to Mossley, pick up big camera and catch steam train at Mossley.

Did same caught 1753 - back @ Mossley station about 1800 - dashed home - grabbed bag of bits - back @ Bottom Mossley about 1810 - quickie in "Brit" and then over to the station ..... we now need some kind of thing that shows 45 minutes of ... nothing ... no contact phone numbers no nothing - then a guy on t'other platform says "It's 70 minutes late" - back to Brit ... I then manage to "acquire" a useful phone number in the Stalybridge area - I ring and bullshit for a few minutes to be told "it's 113 minutes late and the steam has failed - by the way WHERE DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER ????"

Catch next train back to Greenfield (aren't weekly passes useful !!) to find football on TV - huzzah !! back onto Greenfield platform about 113 minutes after 1822 (when it should have been at Diggle Junction) - result - nothing - caught 2053 back to Mossley and came home. The loco should have looked like this ... a cracking picture taken by Paul Martin when the loco was doing East Lancs Railway in 2006 ..



But if it's my pictures you want ... the DSLR has LOADS of pictures of 185s and 170s and 150s - no steam mind !! So "b*ll*x" to that stuff - all I offer tonight is a view of the new "ironwork" at Greenfield station - from "babycam" - you can just see the "Railway" stage left !!



Bugger - the Portuguese have won - that's the team with that fella Cristiano "Real Madrid" Ronaldo - or something like that ....
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