SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions

Can't remember if it's been mentioned on here already, but 7802's boiler ticket will also be reset to 10 years while the rest of the repair work is done (according to the EMF August newsletter).

 

Hagley Hall's boiler passed steam test earlier this week and is now ready to move back to Bridgnorth.

 

The boiler duly arrived on 17 December, pictures in the latest update on the Friends of Hagley Hall website.
http://www.4930hagleyhall.org.uk/news/news.html

 

Services will be cancelled tomorrow (29th) due to inclement weather.

Patrick

 

Snow seems to be going in Bewdley according to my mum, I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere though.

 

Depending on which forecast you believe, there may be more tonight. Also the current stuff is very wet and slushy, and if it freezes as expected, it will be very icy.

 

Fair enough, it’s a bit rubbish when you think of everything else that’s happened this year.

 

I wouldn't like to try to drive down to Arley or Highley in those conditions. Not unless you want to end up in the Severn!

 

And here in Halifax there's nowt!

Richard.

 

With effectively a complete lockdown in place from today, there will be no chance of witnessing these scenes for a while; so glad that I made it over to Highley yesterday........

Pannier 7714 reverses it's train out of the platform road at Highley..........





...and emits a serious volume of saturated steam.............





Goodbye 2020, 75069 departs Highley for Kidderminster.......





Happy New Year everyone, I do hope that things are eventually vastly better for 2021.

Cheerz,

Alan

 

Lovely photos! Is it a trick of the light, or is 75069's tender lining slanting forwards towards the cab?

Richard.

 

It’s just going downhill

 

Funnily enough, 7714 and 75069 were the very same locos on duty this time last year!

 

It came up here last year.
https://www.national-preservation.c...th-22nd-september.1416662/page-4#post-2522497

 

I’m just being silly as ever Pete, maybe someone had a little too much in the Railwaymans before squinting and going ‘yeah that’s ok’

 

Latest update from the 4150 Fund. After 43 years at Bewdley, 4150 is finally on the way to Bridgnorth for restoration to be completed.

http://www.4150.org.uk/news/4150_mar21.html

 

Well, not just yet but soon(TM).

 

Welcome to April's Branch Lines from the Severn Valley Railway, as we look forward to the start of the 2021 season.


Click on the link to read more https://www.svrlive.com/blapr21




Best wishes




Lesley and Patrick