The annual members day was held on the 3rd October 2015, but before the event had even started there had been a few slip ups. The flagship locomotive of the railway, LNER B12 8572 had run into the buffers at Holt on the 1940s weekend two weeks previously. This had meant that the locomotive was…
Yesterday, 2nd October 2015, the Watercress Line celebrated its 150th Anniversary. To commemorate this special milestone, here is a slideshow of pictures I have taken on the line over the years. Enjoy!
The Severn Valley’s Third guest for their Autumn steam gala was previous long time resident on the railway Ivatt class 2 46521, and was used in filming of “Oh Doctor Beaching!” gaining the unofficial name ‘Blossom’. It moved to the GCR in 2000 but returned for the SVR’s fiftieth anniversary, paired with resident GWR prairie…
We’ve certainly had first hand experience of what the situations illustrated with this post must have felt like over the last few weeks. You take something out of service to perform a ‘mainline’ upgrade and some routine maintenance and find a lot more than you bargained for which needs sorting before you can put something…
Loco Yard 