SVR Spring Gala 16th - 18th March 2018

The river is well up and running very fast at the moment

 

There's 2 options, you can walk down and go through the field before the footbridge, there's a small car park there, or you can cross the footbridge and take the footpath immediately to the right and if you carry on for the same distance you can get a photo there. If you carry on following the river on that bank you can get a nice photo of the trains opposite Trimpley Reservoir. Or if you do a left off the footbridge and head off towards Arley Church, you can get a nice train in the landscape photo from the churchyard.

 

My second collection of photos from the charter is now available for viewing.

http://evergreen.zenfolio.com/p615503668#ha5dc1bae

In addition I've put a small collection of Out-Take photos together.....

http://evergreen.zenfolio.com/p699845864#ha5db0cf4

Once again I hope you enjoy taking a look.

 

Today's forecast for the Gala is heavy rain tomorrow, then turning colder for Saturday and Sunday with maybe some snow but this is likely to be very minor amounts. Probably won't see much sun.

 

The GWR 813 Fund Sales Stand will be in its usual location on Kidderminster Town Station concourse.
Lots of interesting , DVDs, VSH tapes, badges and all sorts of goodies!
The Stand will be there all four days.
All monies go towards the upkeep of the Locomotive and the Funds 100 items of rolling stock!

 

43106 will replace 53808 for it's first round trip according to SVR social media.

James

 

Has anyone identified (a) which way locomotives are facing and (b) whether locomotives will remain facing the same way throughout the gala ?

 

Thank you Pete - I had not scrolled down that far in my haste to print a timetable

 

Never seen so many locos facing north before. Usually the bigger locos always face south.

 

Tornado arrived at Bridgnorth on a low loader from Pickering earlier today, 24 hours after her tender, after being stuck at NYMR due to a bridge strike on the Esk Valley line. A few pictures on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/priestabloadservices/posts/1446757775430524

 

Kidderminster car park very full at 8.30.

 

And having just tested it, if you're feeling sprightly you can take a photo of a bridgenorth bound train crossing the bridge, then catch it on to bridgenorth!

 

Bridgnorth Alex

 

I claim autocorrect, I *know* that, honest!!

 

The WTT shows a 1746 ex KDR on Fri/Sat but this isn't reflected in the public timetable, is this an ECS move/private working?

 

Light loco move

 

Quite a nice day in the end, forecast was very pessimistic! All trains ran to time as well which was good, had a good first day:

 

Ah yes, had missed the obvious gap on the set column...