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Severn Valley Railway Mixed Traction Gala - 15th & 16th June 2024

The Severn Valley Railway during their Mixed Traction Gala, featuring LMS Mogul No.13268, GWR No.4930 'Hagley Hall' and BR 4MT No.75069. Video Available Here [IMG] [IMG]

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ikcdab replied to the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

Completely agree with this, steam engines can be tricky beasts. However, hopefully these are rare occasions and normally things go smoothly. So it would seem a pity not to post engine rosters because of this rare occurance. Appreciate (but...

nige757 replied to the thread LE movements, ECS and test runs 2024.

33029 + 33207 seen at Starricks Farm [MEDIA]

burnham-t liked 5944's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

From KESR Facebook page... "After a brief holiday in Devon Marcia is returning home. For the last 61 years the 101-year-old locomotive – one of the smallest operational standard gauge locomotives in the UK – has called the Kent & East Sussex...

Johnme101 liked ghost's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

The new owner has commented on Facebook: "We have some plans for the next few years including a plan to repaint the engine into its original livery as delivered from the Atlas Works. If we can find some Peckett loco buffers they would also be a...

Johnme101 liked marshall5's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

...... and she doesn't look all that different to the first (and last) time I saw Marcia at Rolvenden in July 1967. Ray. [ATTACH]

Johnme101 liked Ben Jenden's post in the thread SVR Autumn Steam Gala 19th-22nd September 2024.

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Johnme101 liked 3ABescot's post in the thread GWSR Cotswold Festival of Steam 25th-27th May 2024.

[ATTACH] [ATTACH] My belated pictures of the aftermath to that excellent gala. We went on 4th and 5th June as we couldn't make the Gala proper. It's marvellous how the railway kept on their celebrity visitors, and it should have paid as the...

Sir Ralph Wedgwood replied to the thread Tornado.

And with the first new boiler almost complete for so long, it’s still unclear why that decision was made.

Sir Ralph Wedgwood liked class8mikado's post in the thread Tornado.

Hindsight is a marvellous thing, So the plan was to put the original boiler at the back of the production line and put a new firebox in it. But it was then moved to the front, but presumably not given one of the new fireboxes from boiler 2 or 3...