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It's all there, in black and white. (Well, mostly anyway. But who would deny the world a little colour?)

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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A picture from seven years ago. The derelict blacksmith's workshop being swamped by the creeping undergrowth.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Steam in the garden. One from the good old days.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Down at Tywyn Wharf today. The fog took some shifting before the sun came out, but the persistent sea fog gave us some wonderfully atmospheric photo opportunities.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The path ahead! I can visualise how thos should appear once it is all constructed. Heading steadily in the right direction.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Teaching myself dry stone walling for the construction of the new garden railway. Progress is slow, especially in the hot weather. But, progress is progress. 😊
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Rolling stock acquisition at the recent Llangollen Garden Railway Show. A rake of six Atropos Snailbeach hopper wagons, too good to miss. They'll be going into storage while I build the new railway.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Spreading the word wide and far!
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Looking to the future....
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A misty last dawn at the old homestead. The view from the kitchen window. Just twelve days ago and it already feels like half a lifetime ago. New horizons.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Well, it's been a long journey, but definitely a rewarding path. First fire lit in the hearth. The heart is reawakened afresh.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
No Trains Today. Sleeper impressions in the moss. All that remains to show that trains once ran here.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
No Trains Today. End of an era.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A quietly significant day today as track lifting has commenced on my garden railway. Not many photos taken, I prefer to remember it in service. The first rails were laid on the 02/02/2002, so it has served well for many years. "Perchance it is not dead but sleepeth"
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Off on another train trip. West Country this time.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Rarer than rocking horse doo doo, scarcer than hens teeth, two Brandbright Tilley trams together take to the rails of the Eaves Green Tramway. (There were only ever five of these models built, if records are correct and here are two of them.)
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
16mm scale Archangel single Fairlie's Moel Tryfan and Snowdon Ranger double heading on the Eaves Green Tramway today.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A late afternoon steam up in the garden. Carrying out a line inspection.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Ok, I've only a small select group of followers on here, so here's a little piece of breaking news about my garden model railway. Important enough to break my code of only posting B&W images. This is quite a monumental event. The first rails were laid on this line on 02.02.2002. End of an era.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Back in Sibiu. I do love my time here. Even when it's raining.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Home once more. This is a nice place to be.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's been a chuffing while!
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Back in Romania for some well earned rest and relaxation. (And a good dose of narrow gauge steam!)
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the original Roger Marsh OGWEN.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Watching the harvest from our garden vantage point. Maybe for the last time?
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Wow! The Awdry Extravaganza on the Talyllyn Railway really has to be seen to be believed. Seventy seven trains over three days, and every one filled with joyful passengers. That's quite a gala, and quite a challenge for the volunteers, staff, supporters and organisers to pull off. Well done!
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Not much going on here these days. It seems to be fading away. Meanwhile, here's No.3 crossing Dolgoch Viaduct on a very blustery day.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So,I built a log store out of some fence panels which I'd taken down some thirty odd years ago, and a few other bits and pieces that I'd subsequently stacked up in the barn in the "that'll be useful some day" pile. Just to prove that they have indeed eventually become useful. Pleased now!
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"No Trains Today." My 'get-up-and-go' appears to have got up and gone and has left me behind. Let's see if I can manage a few days of doing absolutely nothing and not feel guilty about it.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Walking the Mawddach estuary.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Monochrome Monday, with The Mule out on a coal delivery on the distant Llechfan Line.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A good outcome.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Hmmm, I don't know if you can see this, but it's taken overhead just now, with a hand held phone on a night setting. The (not very) long streak was a satellite passing through the shot.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It was quite literally raining stair rods up at Abergynolwyn today as a cloudburst greeted an afternoon Footplate Experience Train chuffing its way up the line. #Talyllyn Railway.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Work in Progress. #Landrover
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Rails in the Grass. There's two little long term pet projects of mine, both of which may actually come to fruition this autumn. One is 120 miles away, the other is 1542 miles away. I need to be driving both of them though to make them happen. The easy one is the closer of the two, but maybe too easy
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Shades of Owd Ratty in their 150th year.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Afternoon steam up after a few hours of somewhat overdue routine maintenance.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I've been tasked with creating a plan to sort out this level crossing. The railway is currently disused, but we plan to restore it. Trouble is, this is not just a very busy road crossing, there are NATO military convoys, including tank transporters, crossing here six day a week. I'm out of my depth.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Having a Corris sort of a day today.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
And so a busy week in Sibiu, Romania comes to a close. A long weekend snooze is in order methinks.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My three weeks of volunteering out here in Romania comes to a close today and I fly back to Old Blighty. It's been an absolute blast and I'm completely knackered. I do so enjoy spending my time here. Cheerio! I'll be back soon!
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Im sure that you turned up in Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The intention is that we will be running passenger trains along here within a couple of years. Within one, if at all possible. Now, I do enjoy a challenge,but.... Well, we'll give it a go!
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Another sunny day in the garden.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
No.4, looking down....
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The working week comes to a close. Shall I head down the pub for a pint, or fall asleep by the fire?
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Out in the cold earlier today.
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This.....
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Machynlleth?
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moralarty.bsky.social @moralarty.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Much confusion in the garden. At least there's a Great Western theme to sort of bring it all together in one place.
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