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The Tyseley Locomotive Works held their open day on Sunday 24th October. The event featured many things such as passenger rides on the demonstration line, turntable demonstrations and locomotive cavalcades. The "Star" attraction however was the rare outside appearance of GWR Star Class 4-6-0 no.4003 'Lode Star', visiting from the National Railway Museum in York and on her way to Swindon where she will be placed on display in 'STEAM' museum. The was also to be the first time a 'Star' had been at Tyseley since the 1950s.

Other locomotives featured in the event include:

- ex-GWR 4900 Class 'Hall' 4-6-0 no.4965 'Rood Ashton Hall'
- ex-GWR 4073 Class 'Castle' 4-6-0 no. 5043 'Earl Of Mount Edgcumbe'
- ex-GWR 4073 Class 'Castle' 4-6-0 no.5029 'Nunney Castle'
- ex-GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT no.9600
- ex-LMS Black 5 4-6-0 no.45305 'Alderman A E Draper'
- ex-LMS Princess Royal Class 4-6-2 no.6201 'Princess Elizabeth' (Not in steam)
- Peckett & Sons 0-4-0ST no.2004 'Percy'
- BR Class 47 no.47773
- BR Class 86 AC Electric no.86259 'Les Ross'
- BR(W) Class 52 'Western' no.D1015 'Western Champion' (Running on one engine)

Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HD Camcorder

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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

Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HD Camcorder

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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 3 and the list of shots goes as follows:

- 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' on 'The North Wales Coast Express' sounding magnificent as she emerges from the tunnel passing Conwy Castle (22/08/10)
- 'Holy War' on the Bala Lake Railway climbing the bank up to Llanuwchllyn station, giving a long whistle for the crossing (16/08/10)
- 44871 on 'The Cambrian Coast Express' seen in terrible weather but giving a fine performance as she storms out of Machynlleth (17/08/10)
- A beautiful mountain sunset seen from the camp site at Llanuwchllyn (26/08/10)
- 'Sir Haydn' disguised as 'Sir Handel' departing Rhydyronen for Tywyn on the Talyllyn Railway (23/08/10)
- 'Lydia' climbing up the line to the high level station on the Perrygrove Miniature Railway. They thought we wanted to get on but after a few signals and head nods they new what was going on and opened up the taps again, nice (25/09/10)
- Tyseley Locomotive Works Open Day - featured the rare outside appearance of 4003 'Lode Star' (24/10/10)
- 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresely' on 'The Cathedrals Express' departing Swindon in the low light on the return (01/12/10)
- 60163 'Tornado' on 'The Bath Christmas Market' storming through Keysham with a whistle and clouds of steam billowing from her chimney (04/12/10)

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.

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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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.