The weekend of the 18th21st 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 aswell 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’ 060T No. 672 ‘Fenchurch’
(Courtesy of the Blubell Railway)
GWR ‘1366 Pannier Tank’ 060PT No. 1369
(Courtesy of the South Devon Railway)
Lambton Colliery Tank 062T No. 29
(Courtesy of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway)
BR(E) Peppercorn ‘A2’ 462 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’ 460 No. 7812 ‘Erlestoke Manor’
SR rebuilt ‘West Country’ 462 No. 21C127(34027) ‘Taw Valley’
GWR ‘5700 Pannier Tank’ 060PT No. 7714
GWR ‘Hall’ 460 No. 4930 ‘Hagley Hall’
LMS ‘Stanier Mogul’ 260 No. 13268*
BR ‘Standard 4MT’ 460 No. 75069
BR Class 108 ‘Diesel Multiple Unit’
* = not featured in this video.