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Yearly Archives: 2022
Merry Christmas !!
We would like to wish you and your families a Very Merry Christmas and let’s hope for a Healthy and Prosperous New Year with lots of trains of whatever size! Take care From all the Boys and Girls at the EVFR
Annual meeting and Running Day
Hi there Last Saturday (19th Nov) saw us having our annual meeting to bring our members up to date with our finances and jobs to be done. All is looking good and once the ‘meeting’ was concluded and we had had a cuppa and some ‘nibbles’ , we got some trains […]
Very good day on the EVFR !
Ray had a ride round with Keith and JP behind ‘Isabel’; Hi there we had a great day on Saturday when we had another running day. In the morning Brian B came over with his good lady (Wroxham shopping??) and successfully tested ‘Isabel’ and ‘Bronwyn’ for us, so they can remain ‘in ticket’ ,so we […]
An ‘environmentally friendly ‘ day on the EVFR !
Hi there We had a lovely running day on Saturday (20th August), when we ran only battery electric locos as a precaution against fire as we have had no rain to speak of here and everything is still tinder dry. So we ran ‘Chieftain, ‘Viceroy’ and the Class 08 with all of our rolling stock […]
All good on the EVFR
Preparing the locos on 16th Running Day Hi, not a lot to report for July, we had a good running day on the 16th when we steamed ‘isabel’ and […]
EVFR latest !
Locos being prepared for Running on 18th June We have been busy since our last post, did we mention that we planned to install a turntable to enable stock to be turned allowing us to run trains in both directions ? Well,we are pleased to tell that the work is well advanced as the photos […]
May running day
Hi, we decided to have a break from ‘work’ things and have a running day on Saturday 21st, which was excellent. The weather was good and all the trains behaved themselves, any problems being driver ones, (like a certain bloke who shall be nameless, but you know who it was! , who let ‘Bronwyn’s fire […]
Happy Running day
John with ‘Bronwyn’ Hi there, on Saturday we had our first running day for 2022 which was very enjoyable with a lovely sunny day and plenty of trains. We steamed up ‘Bronwyn’ and ‘Isabel’ with both having excellent runs with no problems. ‘Viceroy’ was out as was ‘Chieftain ‘and the ‘Shay ‘ had a good […]
Croeso ‘Bronwyn’
We’ve recently welcomed a new (well nearly) Hunslet loco to the EVFR .This lovely little loco has been here a while (aka ‘Lucille’),but has recently had a bit of a makeover with John, Keith ,Kevin and Ben’s help. The work included replacing the firebox cladding, cleaning the safety valves, resetting the cylinder drain valves, cleaning […]
and into February !
Hi We (John and Brian), were pleased yesterday to be able to reconnect the final few panels of the nine that we took up to refurbish along the old ‘Tunnel’ section and it’s looking good, a nice flowing curve. We can now top up the ballast and level it all through…… then we can run […]