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Today went very well and we all had a great time, despite the rotten weather on the way back! thanks to BJMorley, Gizmogle, Ilove165's, matt, eezypeazy, LittleRedTrain, jacknottm - in no particular order, for attending 
The transpeak got in to Nottingham about 25 minutes down, so there was a small amount of confusion as to whether I'd missed Shauna or not! We made our way to the station with Brandon, and met up with Jack, Matt, Sam (Ilove165's) and Dan (LRT) on the station. Rather stupidly, a member of train dispatch shouted to us to say the 47s had been cancelled, when some of the party had already seen them at Water Orton! Oh well! Tom (eezypeazy)turned up after we got on the train and we set off on time. Unfortunately the ex Virgin / Anglia mk2s weren't exactly fantastic so all but one toilet was unlocked, which didn't work properley! So usual WCRC stock there...
After some heads out and a lot of talking and photting each other, we arrived at Skeg. We went to phot the rear loco and we somehow managed to lose matt and eezypeazy! So the rest of us decided to go and wander for a bit. Rather strangely, I went to Skegness and didn't even bother to go to the sea, we were distracted by model shops and other stuff. Got some awful chips, and Gizzy bought a BB gun
and then it was time for the return!
Managed to get 2 tables in the riot coach (front of the train) and it rained very violently! Even so, Brandon had to try heads out The boredom kicked in after being at 25mph for ages, so when the rain had stopped, we relaxed and some did heads out, whilst Dan had a sleep, and me, Gizzy and Sam started playing badminton with a cardboard cup 
however, I will say that Sam made us look like prats after he said "let's play using the mini cheddars instead!" and walloped them so far he hit (not badly!) a passenger in the chest with them! So after gizzy (and myself!) stopped laughing, went back to the cup. A rather explosive bottle of coke was opened outside the window and frothed everywhere on the side of the train (thanks giz ). and then to top it off, some 4 year old talking to us a lot whilst shouting "thrash! thrash! THRASH!"
A group photo was taken (think it was on either Sam's or Gizzy's camera) and so in conclusion we all had a great day (and a very nice departure with the ECS from Nottingham with 47826!). Thanks to Gizmogle also for coming round to mine and taking those filters, they've been hanging around for ages! Dan, Sam, shauna and Brandon got the 1830 meridian to St pancras, sorry to Brandon who's Gloucester train was cancelled!
Here are a few phots from today of mine:
Gizmogle and Dan on the outbound train
Tom and Sam
photting Gizzy photting me!
Dan, Shauna, Brandon
47826 at Skegness
47851 at Skegness
Sam and Tom
kind of appropriate!
the cup we were playing badminton with... on Gizzy's head!
Self explanitory!
and again!
Sort of a 'wtf?' look
47826 at nottingham after the return from Skegness
The transpeak got in to Nottingham about 25 minutes down, so there was a small amount of confusion as to whether I'd missed Shauna or not! We made our way to the station with Brandon, and met up with Jack, Matt, Sam (Ilove165's) and Dan (LRT) on the station. Rather stupidly, a member of train dispatch shouted to us to say the 47s had been cancelled, when some of the party had already seen them at Water Orton! Oh well! Tom (eezypeazy)turned up after we got on the train and we set off on time. Unfortunately the ex Virgin / Anglia mk2s weren't exactly fantastic so all but one toilet was unlocked, which didn't work properley! So usual WCRC stock there...
After some heads out and a lot of talking and photting each other, we arrived at Skeg. We went to phot the rear loco and we somehow managed to lose matt and eezypeazy! So the rest of us decided to go and wander for a bit. Rather strangely, I went to Skegness and didn't even bother to go to the sea, we were distracted by model shops and other stuff. Got some awful chips, and Gizzy bought a BB gun
and then it was time for the return!Managed to get 2 tables in the riot coach (front of the train) and it rained very violently! Even so, Brandon had to try heads out
The boredom kicked in after being at 25mph for ages, so when the rain had stopped, we relaxed and some did heads out, whilst Dan had a sleep, and me, Gizzy and Sam started playing badminton with a cardboard cup however, I will say that Sam made us look like prats after he said "let's play using the mini cheddars instead!" and walloped them so far he hit (not badly!) a passenger in the chest with them! So after gizzy (and myself!) stopped laughing, went back to the cup. A rather explosive bottle of coke was opened outside the window and frothed everywhere on the side of the train (thanks giz ). and then to top it off, some 4 year old talking to us a lot whilst shouting "thrash! thrash! THRASH!" A group photo was taken (think it was on either Sam's or Gizzy's camera) and so in conclusion we all had a great day
(and a very nice departure with the ECS from Nottingham with 47826!). Thanks to Gizmogle also for coming round to mine and taking those filters, they've been hanging around for ages! Dan, Sam, shauna and Brandon got the 1830 meridian to St pancras, sorry to Brandon who's Gloucester train was cancelled!Here are a few phots from today of mine:
Gizmogle and Dan on the outbound train
Tom and Sam
photting Gizzy photting me!
Dan, Shauna, Brandon
47826 at Skegness
47851 at Skegness
Sam and Tom
kind of appropriate!
the cup we were playing badminton with... on Gizzy's head!
Self explanitory!
and again!
Sort of a 'wtf?' look
47826 at nottingham after the return from Skegness
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