Severn Valley Autumn Steam Gala - 17 to 20 Sept

And having now sampled it for haulage for the first time, it goes as good as it looks!

 

Dare we ask what the final livery will be?

 

Svr shirt button below. A bit of fun pending the full painting.

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I always thought it would have been good it 9351 had a WSR shirt button rather than GWR livery.

 

As built (1947) GWR green, so plain green with GWR lettering.

 

Another excellent day at the Severn Valley today - it always delivers the goods! All locos seemed to be behaving well and things were running pretty much to time most of the day.
Highlight for me was seeing 46115 for the first time in many years. Last time I saw it was at York station in about 2012 so it's been a long time! All the visitors were good - first time I'd seen 9681 and it was good to see 41313 on the first stage of its tour of the Autumn galas. 4150 proved itself more than capable of doing the business and I'm sure it will look great when fully painted.

Special mention must go to 813 - what a little star that loco is. I've seen it many time, both on the SVR and on visits elsewhere but I don't think I've travelled behind it with a 4 coach rake before. I was most impressed with its performance.

Thanks as ever to all at the Severn Valley for a great day out!

 

Not much more to add other than another top notch gala from the SVR. Great selection of locos, the timetable was the perfect balance between interest, reliability and frequency. Trains were very well loaded, but always able to get a seat if needed. Perhaps this was the Goldilocks gala? Even the weather had something for everyone!

Personally I was quite happy with the late loco changes, but I still need 80097 for haulage - hint, hint! 3850 gave a good reminder of what we are missing with 2857. I am not sure ive been behind 9681 before, but it gave very good account of itself with a far heavier load than its probably had for many years. 41313 was definitely new haulage as was 4150. Both gave brilliant runs, the Ivatt is a credit to the Isle of Wight rly, lovely machine. 4150 is going to be a really useful addition to the SVR fleet. But that's quite some achievement for 3 new steam locos for this dyed in the wool train nut! 46115 is my all time favourite West Coast loco, so loved seeing that again and the crews had her performing beautifully.

So great locos, great performances, good weather, the best freight train ive seen on the valley on years, a timetable that achieved everything...we even had an awesome sunset at Bewdley this evening...& Flying Scotsman belt through Kidderminster mainline this morning!!
@2857Harry, how are you going to top this one?!!