Severn Valley Railway,March 6, 7, 8, 2009 Festival of Steam

Any sign of a working timetable yet ?

 

the first draft was available to volunteers over the weekend, It's looking good for a 6 loco Gala!

 

From www.svr.co.uk

 

Whilst great that you can obtain the fully detailed wtt, it is normally a large A4 page booklet; and I wonder why they have never produced the smaller type programme similar to those at GCR & WSR galas?

 

Cool, I'll be on the phone getting my order in, plus the tickets in 2 weeks time.

 

deffinatly looking to be a very good gala, im glad i have booked the weekend off work sothat i can work at the valley all weekend!

 

Three day rover ticket arrived today. Looking forward to this one ! Thanks to everyone who came up with 'phot spot' advice. Hope to meet some of you in person over the three days

 

Ordered my 3 day rover plus the advanced timetable so hoping they will arrive either at the weekend or early next week.

 

I intend to brave the queues at Kidder on the Saturday, having arrived by train from Swansea (a good three hour trip) with a mate of mine. Looking forward to some trips behind Sir Nige and Old Carbuncle (Gresley and Cromwell for the uninitiated)...

 

Timetable now on line

http://www.svr.co.uk/downloads/svr_spec ... fsteam.pdf

Right click on link and "Save As"

MARTIN :wink:

 

I've just got my WTT and rover tickets. I can't see any indication of which way locos are facing. Trying to ride tender/ bunker first workings and arrange to phot the chimney first workings!

John

 

Can anyone confirm that the evening rovers will be available? Can't find any mention on the website...

 

5029 & 60007 will be facing South
71000 & 70013 Will be facing North
5164 and 7812 are facing South at the moment, i presume they will be staying that way.

 

I can't find it on the website either, but taken from a fairly good source (which I accept isn't the confirmation that you are probably after!) is this:

"Looks like we will now be experimenting with an evening-only Rover for this gala. Available after 5pm on Friday, and after 6pm Saturday. Price £14 for adults, £12 members & seniors, £7 children. Will not be sold in advance of those times. "

http://forum.svra.org.uk/viewtopic.php? ... c&start=77

 

Thanks, Matt for that useful information. Preparing for those dream shots now!

John

 

Some more detail on scheduled pre and post gala moves is here: http://forum.svra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1072

 

Details now on the web site. It's on the News page, "Festival of Steam - Evening Rover Tickets". Somewhat long URL so I've not posted it, but I'm sure you'll find it OK. There is also a news article about the dining train service on Saturday evening, if that's of interest to anyone.

 

http://www.svr.co.uk:8080/svr/WebObject ... 0.14.5.1.1

http://www.svr.co.uk:8080/svr/WebObject ... cialEvents

Timetable now on line

http://www.svr.co.uk/downloads/svr_spec ... fsteam.pdf

Right click on link and "Save As"

MARTIN :wink:

 

Good to know lots of you are coming. It should be a brilliant 3 days. I'll be driving 71000 first trip on Friday, so I'll try and keep my head in. Don't want to crack any expensive camera lenses!

 

should be a great do, looking forward to it