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With 2011 now under way we take a look back at some of the best and most memorable moments from 2010, split into three parts. Here is Part 2 and the list of shots goes as follows:

- 7802 'Bradley Manor' departing Winchcombe on the GWSR, 3803 in tow, turn up the sound as 7802 echoes her way towards Greet Tunnel (30/05/10)
- 3717 'City Of Truro' on her way to Winchcombe from Toddington during GWR 175 (05/06/10)
- 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' on 'The Cathedrals Express' departing a windy Swindon and making plenty of noise (10/06/10)
- The Swindon & Cricklade Railway six loco cavalcade whistling through Blunsdon (12/06/10)
- 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' again, this time on 'The Red Dragon' making a noisy departure from Swindon on the outward, echoes all round, then speeding through on the return (19/06/10)
- 6024 'King Edward I' on the first day of 'The Cornish Riviera' climbing up past Crofton (26/06/10)
- 5029 'Nunney Castle' & 6024 'King Edward I' on the second day of 'The Cornish Riviera' storming through Swindon (28/06/10)
- 5526 departing from Buckfastleigh to Totnes on the South Devon Railway (02/07/10)
- 6024 'King Edward I' on 'The Royal Oak' storming up Sapperton on the return (First video filmed in HD)(10/07/10)
- 44932 on 'The Cathedrals Express' departing Swindon on the return. A very rare shot as Black 5s are not often to be seen at Swindon (12/08/10)
- 37706 with the stock for 'The Weymouth Seaside Express' racing through Swindon, with two tone (14/08/10)
- 48151 'Gauge O Guild' on 'The Welsh Mountaineer' storming up the gradient through Pont-Y-Pant station on the outward and then climbing the steep gradient out of Blaenau Ffestiniog up to the tunnel (25/08/10)

Thanks to everyone for their support over the year and I look forward to seeing what 2011 will bring. Thank you and Happy New Year.

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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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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Super power at Didcot Railway Centre as for the first time in 49 years two ex-GWR 6000 'King' Class 4-6-0s could be seen in steam together, newly restored no.6023 'King Edward II' & no.6024 'King Edward I'. It almost didn't happen as in the early hours of the morning 6023 blew a head gasket, but this was soon fixed and by the afternoon she was steaming away nicely. We start off by seeing 6023 raising steam gently in the yard next to Castle Class no.5051 'Earl Bathurst' who sadly cannot be in the steam as her ticket ran out in 2008, 6024 is seen running on the demonstration line and we take a quick look at the GWR Steam Railmotor no.93 who has now moved to Didcot from the Llangollen Railway. We again see 6024 on the demonstration line before returning to the yard to see 6023 move off shed to head to the turntable. She is turned about a quarter of the way at first to allow people to photograph and/or video her, 6024 is seen passing by in the background. 6024 is then seen shunting the stock on the demonstration line, she then moves off the stock to head off to the yard to be lined up with 6023 and 5051. After getting some shots off them together at last we move back to the lineside as 6023 and 6024 now doubled up - a combined tractive effort of 80,600 lbf - back onto the stock, they back up slightly so as to get a good run up to the station and they looked fantastic together. The last few shots consist of the pair running up and down the demonstration line seen from various different spots.

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:

- 6430 Departing Bishops Lydeard for Norton Fitzwarren with a morning Auto-Train service (Unwittingly, I left on the shutter sound on my phone, even after I put my phone on silent which should have turned all sounds off) .
- 9351 backing empty stock out of the loop at Bishops Lydeard then bringing it back through the other side to form the 10:00am departure for Minehead
- On board footage from 9351's train on a blinding run from Bishops Lydeard, quite literally actually as I was hit in the eye by a stray piece of coal smut as we were approaching Crowcombe Heathfield.
- 9351 departing Stogumber
- 2807 storming through Stogumber station on the first of the non-stop services through Stogumber
- 88 arriving at Stogumber
- On board footage of 88
- 6024 arriving at & departing Williton, seen from 88's train
- 88 departing Washford, couldn't get down to the end as trains don't stop at Washford for very long
- 30777 arriving into Washford after ascending the bank then seen departing
- 70000 arriving into Washford

Filmed on a Panasonic HDC-HS60 HD Camcorder

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