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A number of trains wait for the "right away" as the official opening nears.
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Another view just before the opening.
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It almost looks like these two locos are squaring up for a race to the chicane!
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The opening draws near as photographers gather to capture the moment.
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A closeup of the banner straddling the tracks.
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TAG Gorton, editor of Garden Rail magazine (right), who performed the opening ceremony, shares a joke with Phil Richardson, BSME chairman.
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The day's services await the official procedings
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TAG prepares to cut the banner, although he looks like he'd be equally at home conducting an orchestra!
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TAG snips the banner and the new facility is officially open.
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The new signals show the line set for the loop. The left hand branch takes you back to the steaming bays
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There was a visiting Maxitrack Wren on the 5" track too.
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The wren is shown here coupled to a Bromsgrove SME passenger car.
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A shot of the signal before siting on the 16mm railway.
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A final shot of the garden railway. With all that mud around it could only be summer 2007!
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