Nene Valley Railway Steam Gala - 10/11 September 2011

http://www.nvr.org.uk/timetable/sgala.php

5MT 73050 "City of Peterborough"
4F 44422
Polish Tank 5485
Austerity 22
Hudswell Clarke 1800

The Visiting fleet (To be confirmed)

Freight Train in operation

Intensive Timetable

Double Heading

Special Fares

Lineside Passes

Mark 1 carriage set in operation.

5485 with a continental service

Vintage Bus service from Wansford - Tours of the local villages in a historic bus

Trade Stalls

See the progress and the restoration of 34081 92 Squadron. The locomotive will be positioned in platform 5 for inspection.

Other attractions to be confirmed

Take a seat aboard the Club Car and enjoy a Ploughman’s Lunch £6.50, Afternoon Cream Tea Service £3.00

 

You'll have a problem positioning 34081 anywhere as we'll be lifting the frames from the wheels very soon and with the boiler down in Kent there's precious little to see anyway.

 

Any ideas about potential visitors?

 

http://www.nvr.org.uk/timetable/sgala.php

2 months to go and NO visitors listed............yet.
Visitors have been arranged though for the diesel gala three weeks later.

 

Noticed the BR 64 2-6-2t on the turntable last week, are there any plans for this engine ?

 

The DB '64' tank has gone under cover into the open-ended shed, along with 0-6-0ST "Derek Crouch". This is after many years spent in the open which has got to be a good thing. Photos of the engines in their new location on the blog linked below, or this link direct to the relevant posting: http://nene-valley.blogspot.com/2011/07/shunting-locos.html. I have heard a rumour from another volunteer about the German tank, but how reliable this is I do not know. Will have to see what happens (if anything).

I see the line about 34081's location has been corrected on the website! Shed tours seem to be on offer again this year so donations in the pot would be much appreciated!

I believe attempts are being made behind the scenes to get a visiting steam loco for this event, including one that I'd love to see there, but whether we will manage to get one remains to be seen - last year didn't go our way on that front unfortunately.

Hope this helps for now, even though I'm uncertain about quite a bit of it! More information should emerge nearer the time.

Regards, Paul

 

Many thanks for the update Paul

 

NVR STEAM GALA 2011
“EAST MEETS WEST”

It is with great pleasure the NVR can formally announce the two visiting Steam Locomotives for the NVR Steam Gala on September 10th and 11th

The Locomotive line up will now be

71000 Duke of Gloucester
GWR 4936 Kinlet Hall
73050 City of Peterborough
4F No 44422
J94 No 22
The Steam Gala web page will be update as soon as possible with further details of this great event, the two Locomotives will also be available for Driving Courses and Photo charters dates will be announced as soon as possible


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Good to see the NVR pushing the boat out with two interesting visitors. Hopefully they'll pull in the crowds and the money.

 

Let's hope so - a great line up, and I shall be there for sure!

 

Will probably go down on the Sunday,nice to see 2 very good visiting loco's.

Cheers,
Mark

 

Will 73050, 4936, 71000 and 44422 just have the mk1 set to haul passenger wise?

Any chance of 2 passenger rakes & 1 freight, as a 1 train service won't give many travel opportunity sadly?

The 3 train mixed weekend was good, as are the diesel weekends when 3 sets are out.

Best of luck with the event.

 

Hello all,

Please see my photo of 73050's first weekend back in service, after essential work was required to replace both the locomotives steam pipes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oli_g_15/6045669930/sizes/l/in/photostream/

With our steam gala fast approaching, this is great news in preperation for reuniting the Standard 5 with 71000.

Look forward to seeing as many of you there next month. I will be on Kinlet Hall on Sunday, so come say hello if your around.

Cheers,
Oli (NVR Fireman)

 

With regard to the number of rakes out, i don't think we'll get an answer until the timetables are published. The last gala, using the 'Wagon Lits' set was good, but maybe with the MK1's, the TPO and the goods, they think theres just not enough room for another set. It did cause a lot of shunting having the extra set out at the last gala.

Good for us photographers but meant a very busy couple of days for the yard forman at Wansford.

Incidently, if anyone is searching for a reason to attend this gala heres a link to photo's of the last one: http://chriskempster.zenfolio.com/p464059956

Quite possibly the best gala I've been to, and without any visitors.

Imagine what they can do in September with 'The Duke' and 'Kinlet Hall'!!

 

Dont think they have enough mk1s to make 2 rakes anyway.

4936 is booked to move to Nvr friday 26.08.11
http://uksteam.info/tours/t11/t0826p.htm

 

Headcode is 0Z49 for 4936's move. Suggests light engine, no support coach.

 

All being well there will be shed tours so those wishing to see progress on 34081 will have the opportunity to do so. Our sales stall will also be there so bring plenty of money.

 

Nice coincidence - was planning to go up there on the Friday so will have to keep an eye out for that!

As for the Mk1s, perhaps not this year, but maybe next year, or the year after, or the year after that? Who knows, but there have recently been stirrings on this front as two rakes of Mk1s are a long-held ambition among many people on the railway and enough vehicles are present albeit unrestored... see http://nene-valley.blogspot.com/2011/08/mk1s-emerge.html As an update to this, I am told efforts have been made to clean the graffitied coach externally although there is still more to do.

Paul

 

Any ideas on timetable / roster as yet please?

Best Regards

 

You'll probably find that the timetable won't be published until the week before the event. No doubt there are still a few decisions being made about what engine on which train and what time.

I'm still curious to see what they do about the second rake. I'd be surprised if they only run one rake of passenger coaches but i've seen no mention anywhere of anymore than that.

The roster has five engines in steam. The Mk1's, goods and TPO are only three trains. Even with one engine acting as a spare or a swapper, whats the fifth doing?