The Swanage Railway will be holding their Autumn Steam gala 14th to 16th October. It promises to have quite an incredible collection of Southern locomotives, with two visitors from the National Collection – King Arthur class 777 Sir Lamiel and ex-LSWR T9 class 30120.  These will be supplemented by the home fleet with U class 31806, M7 class 30053, Battle of Britain class 34070 Manston and BR Standard class 4MT 2-6-4T 80104.

Full details of the event can be found on the Swanage Railways website, that includes a couple of pictures from the locoyard photograph collection – click here for more!