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East Anglian Railway Museum Steam Gala - 14th & 15th March 2020 - STARRING 5526.

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  1. ykin01

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    The East Anglian Railway Museum is extremely pleased to announce that the visiting locomotive for the Spring Steam Gala over the 14th and 15th of March 2020. Will be GWR Small Prairie No. 5526. We would like thank the South Devon Railway for making this possible.
    Our resident fleet of industrials RSH No 54 0-6-0, Bagnall 2542 0-4-0 “Jubilee” & Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 No 11 will also be operating further detail will be available soon please check the website: www.earm.co.uk or email: locomotives@earm.co.uk

    Locos in steam & running:-
    "5526" - Small Prairie With Thanks To South Devon Railway
    54 - RSH
    2542 "Jubilee" - Bagnall
    11 - Andrew Barclay
     
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    I'm local to this so will definitely attend, nice to see the EARM making these galas annual now.
     
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    Just a bit of a plug for the above event - 5526 arrives this week!

    Also hopefully something that may be of interest to some...
    There is also an opportunity to drive 5526 on the 13th & 18th March, for the bargain price of £150. Please check the EARM website for more details (www.earm.co.uk/railex).
     
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    Just curious, will there be some sort of timetable for the gala?
     
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    Yes there is - if you email locomotives@earm.co.uk a WTT will happily be sent across to you - same applies to anyone else that would like one.

    Although from what I've been told it'll be a passenger set of Mk1s, the vintage coaches, a rideable freight train along with some shunting demonstrations. Also for Saturday only, we will run an extended timetable taking us into the hours of darkness with the Small Prairie 5526.

    I'm firing Jubilee on the Saturday and 5526 on Sunday - hope to see some people from here there!
     
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    Brilliant thanks.
     
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    Good news. 5526 was en route this evening nearing Exeter (M5) just after 5pm. <BJ>
     
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    5526 has safely arrived and following a shunt this weekend all is ready for the gala on Saturday.

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    Here’s my video from yesterday (driver experience and photo charter). Thanks to the volunteers at the museum who looked after us so well
     
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    My video of todays actions. So nice to see a big loco at the museum. Thanks go to the volunteers for putting on a great event.

     
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    Great videos both, thanks for sharing! :)
     
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    Gala held just in time.
    Current EARM Update: The board of trustees have taken the difficult decision to close the museum to members of the public until further notice due to the Coronavirus outbreak. We are reviewing government advice regularly and hope to be able to welcome you again in the future.
     

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