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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)

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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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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.

Part 2 of 2 videos on the Evesham Vale Light Railway's July Steam Gala. Running an intensive service with four steam locos and one diesel working the days trains.

Locos running were:

- Little Giant Class 4-4-2 Atlantic no.32 'Count Louis'
- Albert Barnes & Co. 4-4-2 Atlantic no.103 'John'
- 0-4-0TT no.312 'St. Egwin'
- 0-6-2TT no.3 'Dougal'
- Ruston/Keef 4wDH 'Cromwell'

Shots included are:

- 'Dougal' appearing out of the tunnel on a train to Twyford Station
- Double headed Atlantics 'Count Louis' & 'John' climbing up to the tunnel approaching Evesham Vale Station
- 'Cromwell' climbing the bank to Twyford after taking over from the Atlantics
- 'St. Egwin' approaching the tunnel on her way to Evesham Vale Station
- 'John' now leading, the two 4-4-2s climb the bank with the last train of the day.
- 'St. Egwin returning light to Twyford at speed and giving a great whistle
- 'St. Egwin' & 'Count Louis' being cleaned at the sheds after a hard days work

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We visited the Hollycombe Steam Collection during their steam rally which is said to be the biggest event of the year at Hollycombe. The event featured a wide variety of steam traction from railway locomotives and road locomotives to static engines used to power the fairground rides.

In this video we see Polish Tourska LAS Type 0-6-0T no.3257 running around to couple up to Hunslet 0-4-0ST 'Jack Lane', they then proceed to depart, I assume she was taking the Hunslet to a trailer to be taken away although I'm not too sure.

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Part 1 of 2 videos of the Evesham Vale Light Railway's July Steam Gala. Running an intensive service with four steam locos and one diesel working the days trains.

Locos running were:

- Little Giant Class 4-4-2 Atlantic no.32 'Count Louis'
- Albert Barnes & Co. 4-4-2 Atlantic no.103 'John'
- 0-4-0TT no.312 'St. Egwin'
- 0-6-2TT no.3 'Dougal'
- Ruston/Keef 4wDH 'Cromwell'

Shots included are:

- 0-4-0 Pennsylvania Switcher no.712 'R.H. Morse' sat on display at Twyford Station
- 'Dougal' rolling past on the approach to Twyford Station
- 'Count Louis' departing Twyford Station
- 'Count Louis' blasting out of the tunnel after leaving Evesham Vale Station
- 'Dougal' coasting through the tunnel approaching Evesham Vale Station
- 'John' charging up the 1:65 bank after leaving the loop at Evesham Vale then 'Dougal' backs down to run round the loop. This was a way of turning locos at Evesham Vale station so a loco brings a train in via the loop, the second loco takes over from the other end of the train and takes that train back out via the loop to Twyford Station
- 'Dougal' running back into Evesham Vale Station after turning on the loop.
- 'Cromwell' running into Evesham Vale Station and 'Dougal' running round to back onto the train
- 'Dougal' taking the train up the bank and giving a nice tuneful whistle, the diesel then backs down to turn on the loop
- 'John' arriving into Evesham Vale Station with 'Count Louis' waiting to take the return train
- 'Count Louis' departing Evesham Vale then seen again on the loop
- 'Dougal' & 'St. Egwin' double heading a train seen whistling into the tunnel
- 'Count Louis' sat with 'R.H. Morse' at Twyford Station
- 'Cromwell' making its way into the tunnel approaching Evesham Vale

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