The weekend of the 18th-21st of April, saw the Severn Valley Railway’s hold its annual ‘Spring Steam Gala' event.
Star guest locomotives included from the Bluebell Railway was LBSCR Terrier No. 72 'Fenchurch' which put in some fine performances on the Hampton Loade locals, lSouth Devon Railway’s unique outside cylinder Pannier Tank No. 1369 as las minute replacement for the resident Port Talbot ‘Saddle Tank’ No. 813. The final operational guest was the Lambton Colliery Tank No. 29 from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as-well as recently overhauled BR(E) ‘A2’ No. 60532 ‘Blue Peter’ which was on static display at Kidderminster in between its test runs on the SVR completed the line up of guest engines.
Recently out shopped resident Stanier Mogul 13268 was sporting a fresh coat of LMS Lined Black although sadly I did not see this locomotive die to it have issues on Saturday.
Guest locomotives featured include
- LBSCR ‘Terrier’ 0-6-0T No. 672 ‘Fenchurch’
(Courtesy of the Blubell Railway)
- GWR ‘1366 Pannier Tank’ 0-6-0PT No. 1369
(Courtesy of the South Devon Railway)
- Lambton Colliery Tank 0-6-2T No. 29
(Courtesy of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway)
- BR(E) Peppercorn ‘A2’ 4-6-2 No. 60532 ‘Blue Peter’
(On static display at Kidderminster courtesy of Royal Scot & General Trust and Locomotive Services Limited)
Resident locomotives featured include
- GWR ‘Manor’ 4-6-0 No. 7812 ‘Erlestoke Manor’
- SR rebuilt ‘West Country’ 4-6-2 No. 21C127(34027) ‘Taw Valley’
- GWR ‘5700 Pannier Tank’ 0-6-0PT No. 7714
- GWR ‘Hall’ 4-6-0 No. 4930 ‘Hagley Hall’
- LMS ‘Stanier Mogul’ 2-6-0 No. 13268*
- BR ‘Standard 4MT’ 4-6-0 No. 75069
- BR Class 108 ‘Diesel Multiple Unit’
* = not featured in this video.
