Doncaster Works open day June 2026

There is a article in Trackside magazine that the Wabtec site at Doncaster is having a open day in June with 60007 SNG Star guest, tickets through Eventbrite from 11th May, cant find any other info though

 

20th June according to https://gresley.org/event/wabtec-doncaster-site-celebration-event/

 

Thanks
Neil

 

Rail Advent saying 60103 will also be in attendance, along with various diesel locos. Two sessions, 10am - 2pm and 2pm - 6pm. They're getting worse with their cut and pasting of press releases - they've failed to mention the date!

 

20th June, Tickets are FREE, available online from Monday 11th May.

Doncaster Works celebration event to showcase The Sir Nigel Gresley and The Flying Scotsman locomotives - City of Doncaster Council

 

Tickets booked just now. Very easy.

 

Sold Out by 10.50am

 

Good day today. Nice relaxed atmosphere, no issues with people getting in the way while you're trying to take photos, very little queuing for footplate visits and a ride beyond 08724 on Caroline. Interesting to see the work going on inside the various shops as well. Very well organised considering they only started discussing it in March! And I'm glad they kept the numbers down, even though they could easily have given away more.

60007 looked superb sat outside the erecting shop, and the couple of dozen support crew and volunteers who were there did a great job, very engaging, lots of stuff being sold on the sales stand. In contrast, 60103 looked a bit forlorn, on its own, no one around, not in steam, no visits to the footplate. The Friends of the NRM had a small sales stand but well away from the loco, tucked back opposite the class 58.

 

I do hope you're not one of these people who get angry if someone passes across their shot whilst they're setting up: I nearly came to blows with an absolute berk at Derby 200 over that after he got abusive towards me. You ain't important just because you've got a camera around your neck.

 

An observation which probably reflects the A4 being cared for by a passionate group of volunteers with a rich history of doing so and the A3 being looked after under contract and supervised by people doing a job, of which the loco is only a part of their duties.

 

There’s a balance - it’s only polite to try and keep out of the way of somebody’s shot if you possibly can. On the other hand, as you say, anyone who acts ‘over entitled’ is a berk.

 

Agreed - if you're aware someone's taking a photo in the first place, of course. What you don't need is a load of sarcastic abuse on several occasions afterwards, as I got that day. Quite ruined the whole day for me.

 

Not at all, I'm more than happy to wait if someone is walking in front or wants a photo with their kids or have a closer look at something. Take all the time you want, it's an open day, there's going to be a lot of people around. It's the ones with the self-awareness of a boiled potato who stand there, chatting away to their mates, looking at their phones, or is some other way completely oblivious to the world around them.

It does make me laugh when people get worked out about not being to get the master shot at an open day. My camera didn't even come out of my bag yesterday! I took a few snaps on my phone and that was it. You're not going to get an amazing photo of anything, not when there's fencing and barriers up, bin bags over buffers, lighting towers sticking out of the top of locos, that sort of thing.

 

Unfortunately it's a common practice in my experience I remember once at Didcot this man with a camera shouting at a family with kids in a pram to get out of his shot, for context the family were using the path which is what it's there for, they felt forced to then walk along the tracks instead to get past and one of the women nearly tripped over and the man with the camera saw it and turned to me and went "oh some people". I just turned around and walked away before I said something I would regret.

 

Well said - and thank you.

Whilst at Derby I was standing next to someone with a camera trying to get a photo of 60103 and you could see him going from mildly frustrated to angry at the inconsiderate people looking at what is, after all, a rather famous locomotive. Some were asking others to move so they could get a photo of other stuff...

 

Some footage covering the event and the various locomotives on display. Was a great day overall, and was certainly a nice surprise to have Caroline offering rides throughout the day.