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My first visit to the Great Central Railway for their Winter Steam Gala, the theme for the gala was Banbury in the late 1950's so the gala featured mainly GWR locos but also had locos from all of the 'Big Four' railway companies.

The full line up of locos included:

- ex-GWR 3700 Class 4-4-0 no.3717 'City Of Truro'
- ex-GWR 1400 Class 0-4-2T no.1450
- ex-GWR 2884 Class 2-8-0 no.3850
- ex-GWR 4900 Class 'Hall' 4-6-0 no.4953 'Pitchford Hall'
- ex-GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T no.5526
- ex-LMS Black 5 4-6-0 no.45305 'Alderman A.E. Draper'
- ex-SR N15 Class 4-6-0 no.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
- ex-LNER K4 Class 2-6-0 no.61994 'The Great Marquess'

Shots include:

- 4953 moving through Loughborough station then seen from the road bridge backing onto her train to form a double header with 61994
- 4953 & 61994 seen departing Loughborough bound for Leicester
- Seen from the coach window, 4953 passes through Rothley station on wind cutters (I had hoped to get off the train at Leicester to do some filming but due to the train being jam packed, I couldn't get out)
- Back at Loughborough, the wind cutters are seen again as 30777 departs with them for Leicester (Not the best of shots but I thought I'd leave it in)
- 3717 & 61994 are seen arriving at Loughborough
- Now at Quorn, 1450 is seen arriving and then departing on a two coach local
- 45305 leaving Quorn to Loughborough light engine
- 3850 bringing the wind cutters into the station and shunting them into the siding
- 61994 blasts through Quorn on a spectacular run of the evening TPO whilst 3850 backs off the wind cutters into the station

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After filming 34067 'Tangmere' on 'The Welshman' I headed east to Didcot to see BR Class A1 4-6-2 no.60163 'Tornado', recently re-painted into British Railways Brunswick Green and sporting BR's early emblem. She arrived at Didcot on June 9th and will be staying until June 17th although the 11th was the only day she would be in steam. This gave the opportunity to see three of the UK's newest steam locomotives in steam together, these were 60163, Fire Fly and the recently completed GWR Steam Railmotor no.93 which by the way looks and sounds superb.

We start off the video with Tornado trundling along the main demonstration line. We then take a look in and around the shed with Mogul no.5322 & Pannier no.3738 on display outside. We also see no.4079 'Pendennis Castle' which looks to be nearing completion & the frames of County Class no.1014 'County Of Glamorgan'. Moving back outside we see Tornado moving on shed to be displayed to allow us to get a good look at her in her smart new livery. Moving on we see no.93 making a loud departure from Burlescombe Station on the branch line then arriving back whilst at the same time Fire Fly arrives on the Broad Gauge line. Fire Fly is then see departing with no.93 following suit. After having a ride on both broad gauge and Railmotor (which I didn't film) we move to the turntable where Tornado is already half way round, so I couldn't really get a good spot to get her all in. She then gives a whistle and makes her way back to the yard to move onto the demonstration line. The last four shots show her running up and down the line with her two coach train.

Filmed on a Panasonic HDC-HS60 HD Camcorder.

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The West Somerset Railway held their Spring Steam Gala over two weekends in March 19th & 20th and 24th & 27th, this was in celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the lines re-opening. This four part series shows the last day of the gala, Sunday 27th March.

Locos in operation on the Sunday were:

- BR 7MT 'Britannia' Class 4-6-2 no.70000 'Britannia'
- SR N15 'King Arthur' Class 4-6-0 no.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
- GWR 6000 'King' Class 4-6-0 no.6024 'King Edward I'
- GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 no.2807
- GWR 6400 Class 0-6-0PT no.6430
- GWR 5101 'Large Prairie' Class 2-6-2T no.4160
- GWR 4575 'Small Prairie' Class 2-6-2T no.5553
- WSR 'Mogul' 2-6-0 no.9351
- S&DJR Class 7F 2-8-0 no.88

Shots included in this video are:

- On board footage from 70000's train shots including ascending Washford Bank into Washford Station, Departing Watchet & Departing Doniford Halt.
- 70000 departing Williton.
- Williton sheds where we see a steam car & roller, ex-SR West Country Class 4-6-2 no.34046 'Braunton' & ex-GWR 6959 'Modified Hall' Class 4-6-0 no.6960 'Raveningham Hall' (nearing the completion of her overhaul).
- 6024 climbing the final stretch of Washford Bank and arriving into Washford Station.
- On board footage from 6024's train, shots include departing Watchet, various shots along the line & Starting the climb out of Stogumber.

Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HDC-HS60 HD Camcorder

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Ex-GWR 4073 Class 'Castle' 4-6-0 no.5043 'Earl Of Mount Edgcumbe' hauled the Solihull - Newbury - Bristol - Swindon - Solihull tour 'The Collett Express' 1Z50 & 1Z53, formerly dubbed 'The Collett Double' it was due to be double headed with 5043 & 5029 'Nunney Castle', 5029 was then made unavailable and 4965 'Rood Ashton Hall' was to take her place but due to gauging problems she was made unavailable leaving 5043 to haul the tour by herself. After filming 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' I moved up onto the hill outside Crofton which gives a great view of the area. We start off by seeing a HST service passing by with the sun gleaming off its paintwork, after that the rain came and we got a thorough drenching, thankfully though the rain stopped and the sun shone in time for 5043 and she is seen making a fine sight racing along the Berks & Hants Line through Crofton, whistling away as she passes the Crofton Beam Engines. Probably one of the best shots I've ever done, what say ye YouTube?

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2nd April 2011 was to be an historic day in the history of railway preservation as this was the day of the launch of ex-GWR 6000 'King' Class 4-6-0 no.6023 'King Edward II' She was dubbed 'Project Impossible' by some due to the neglected state she was in when she was at Bristol, but after a 22 year restoration, she is here and alive. She is painted in BR's experimental express passenger blue livery which was carried only by Class 8 locomotives, and she looks absolutely gorgeous. Guest engines included 4965 'Rood Ashton Hall' & 5043 'Earl Of Mount Edgcumbe' who had arrived at Didcot with the appropriately named 'Coronation Express' from Tyseley to Didcot. As expected for an event like this it was absolutely jam packed with people so it was difficult to get a clean shot of the King. The launch ceremony was to be held at the turntable where she would be turned once 360 Degrees then a ceremonial speech would be given before 6023 moves off with plenty of whistling and cuts the string to make her officially launched. She would then go on to the main running line where she would trundle up and down, most of the time with quite of bit of thrash.

A big congratulations to all those involved in making this a reality.

Filmed on a Panasonic HDC-HS60 HD Camcorder

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