Bluebell Railway Giants of Steam 22nd-24th October 2010

An excellent gala report which pretty much hit the nail on the head. A goods train would have been a nice addition and the overall line-up of small engines made it feel more Branch Line than Giants w/e. However as per usual the organisers still pulled off a very good event. I believe the Giants of Steam event will now be pulled from next year and a different theme will be added to our October event due to the lack of home based large engines. Great shame to see Giants go but common sense has prevailed and I look forward to next year's event.

 

I'm not so sure that the title matters at all, and anyway there are more ways of thinking that an engine is a 'Giant' then just its physical size.

Regards

 

I've finally uploaded two short video clips from Thurdays' charter with 30777. Many thanks to Jon for his efforts to re-arrange the charter and to the staff. The loco was paired with 3 Bulleid carriages to re-create a typical Weymouth-Bournemouth train combination from the 1960's. The links are as follows; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVNNL5HU9sg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT-GVSCFHfI

Cheers

David