NB: THERE IS AN ERROR IN THE EMBEDDED CAPTION; THE DOUBLE FAIRLIE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO IS ‘DAVID LLOYD GEORGE’, NOT ‘MERDDIN EMRYS’ AS STATED. SORRY ABOUT THAT.
RD26507vid. The Ffestiniog Railway’s 1995 Steam Gala had the theme of ‘All Our Yesterdays’ and the line up included several 60 cm / 2ft gauge visitors from France. One of these is seen in this short video and it’s Krauss 0-8-0T 6999 BURGONDE built in 1914; it was visiting from the Chemin de Fer de la Vallée de l’Ouche (CFVO) which is south west of Dijon.
BURGONDE is a German WW1 Feldbahn locomotive with Klein-Lindner hollow axels front and rear; while these might be great for guiding the locomotive on curving track they can, as the video shows, create a side to side hunting motion when travelling at speed on straight track.
As the Gala was being staged in Minffordd Yard, a series of short shuttle trains was run from Porthmadog Harbour Station to Minffordd and they were top ‘n’ tailed to enable quick turnrounds. This is one such shuttle approaching Minffordd with BURGONDE leading and privately owned Kerr Stuart 0-6-0T SGT MURPHY trailing.
The video starts with Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0T DAVID LLOYD GEORGE heading a regular service train from Porthmadog Harbour Station to Blaenau Ffestiniog.
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Sunday, 7th May, 1995. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2023.
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Thank you Ron. I can well believe what Jean-Claude said about mal-de-mer on the Cob!
Odd, didn't do it in the Val d'Ouche, but we weren't going so fast, nor being propelled from the rear.