KWVR Beer and Music Festival, Autumn 2021

After much riding of the trains at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway September 2021 Gala, it was nice to have a second go at things a short while later, when they held their Beer and Music Festival.  It didn't take place in 2020 for... reasons... so the line seemed to have gone all-out to make up for it in 2021, with a variety of motive power in use, effectively creating a 'mini gala'.

I (Ben) was free on the Friday, which meant I was able to get some pics of the visiting class 27; I didn't get to photograph it during the Mixed Traffic gala as it had a mechanical fault for a bit, and when it did run I was too busy to lineside, or was actually on the train.

Glory-be, sunshine!  Already better than the Gala weekend then, weather-wise...

Damems level crossing.  I really need to get around to modelling this station at some point.

I strolled down to Keighley to see another visitor, 'Black 5' 45212.  Technically owned by the railway, but it spends most of the year running around Scotland on charter trains, only coming back for the winter.  

A new angle for me above, by poking the phone through some railings.

Climbing out of Keighley.

Seen again near Haworth on the Sunday, not an easy angle as Skipton Properties have closed the footpath, so I was standing hard against their barricades for this pic.  Gloomier weather, annoyingly.

Then there was "Bahamas", making a rare turn on the service trains having also returned from main-line commitments.  Another new angle for me in Keighley, requiring a bit of a scramble up a stone wall, though still on the public side of the boundary. Not as easy as it was ten years ago, I'm definitely getting too old for finding creative angles and climbing up walls and trees... I'll have to just join the orange-high-vis-army soon on the embankment at Oakworth.

Speaking of which, on the way out in the afternoon we dived into Oakworth for a couple of shots of "Bahamas" there.

The shot of the 27 made it into "Push and Pull", the in-house mag for the KWVR, along with one of the angles on "Bahamas" leaving Keighley, slightly justifying the effort of scaling the stone retaining wall.  Nothing in the mags, but then they'd been saturated by pics from the earlier gala.