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SVR Autumn Steam Gala

Discuție în 'Galas and Events' creată de 2857Harry, 21 Mai 2025.

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    First detials about the Autumn Steam Gala are now up -

    https://svr.co.uk/event/autumn-steam-gala/

    6 home engines and hoping for 4 visitors. If we get the 4 we want should be a couple of first time visits too.

    Overnight running returns - With rising costs and so on our Gala Group reached a decision with the railway to make this overnight running happen in anniversary years every 5 years, so being our 60th Anniversary year.

    Hopefully going to produce a timetable which may remove some, maybe most of the double crosses at Bewdley.

    Should be a very good do.
     
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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    Also states the full line will be open
    (Had my B&B booked a while ago whatever length of line was going to be open)
     
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    Overnight runnings mean I'll stick it in the diary and start negotiating the time off.
     
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    BINGO: Which way will the guest locomotives be facing?
     
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    2857Harry Well-Known Member

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    Hahaha brilliant! Out little gala group was having this discussion earlier…..To be revealed! :D
     
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    Wheels to the rails is usual. Too much friction the other way up...
     
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    Gladiator 5076 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Am I missing something, but there appears to only be an individual travellers one day price for Thursday Do you have to buy a multi day ticket?
     
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    2857Harry Well-Known Member

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    It is there but its on the wrong line. I’ll get it addressed
     
  9. 2857Harry

    2857Harry Well-Known Member

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    Issue with ticket price on website should be corrected now
     
  10. 2857Harry

    2857Harry Well-Known Member

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    https://www.svrwiki.com/GWR_9581_Wheelchair_accessible_Buffet_Car

    Looks very likely now we will be able to launch Coach 9581 at the Autumn Gala. All being well this should go in to the main GWR rake, which will be formed of 8 Collett Coaches in matching GWR Shirtbutton Livery.

    Launch day likely to be Thursday 18th September, mid morning departure from Kidderminster after some form of launch celebration/presentation. Assuming all works well we would expect 4930 to head the train.
     
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  11. Kje7812

    Kje7812 Part of the furniture

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    35006 announced as the first guest.

    I believe it will be the first time a Merchant Navy has visited (?).
     
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    2857Harry Well-Known Member

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    Yep 35006 the first of hopefully 4.

    First Merchant on the SVR, first of a lineup of visitors which haven’t visited before (If all goes to plan!), chance of some boat train recreation, and well the rest you’ll have to wait and see
     
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    SVR special headboard as well H? Signwriting is well on the way. Photos have appeared of said headboard on SVR railtours .
     
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    John Petley Part of the furniture

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    An excellent first visitor although if I may turn "pedant mode" on for a moment, the "boat train" recreations to which the GWSR seem a bit partial are pure fantasy. Waterloo-Southampton Docks boat trains were usually the preserve of Eastleigh shed, which only ever had an allocation of light pacifics. True, the very last one, on 9th May 1967, was worked by a light pacific from a different shed - Nine Elms' 34021 Dartmoor - but the likelihood of a Salisbury "MN" ever working a boat train is pretty remote, <Pedant mode off!>
     
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    Not technically a normal boat train, but 35006 was moved to Nine Elms for a week in may 1961 for VIP trips to view the SS Canberra before the maiden voyage. Not sure but I was told it also ran the first trip at the end of the week. Happy to be corrected. Sadly don’t know who the photographer is but it was the basis for me doing the artwork to recreate the headboard. IMG_5082.png IMG_5082.png IMG_5082.png
     
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    John Petley Part of the furniture

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    Well, you learn something new every day! As you say, not technically a boat train, so I was not completely wrong in my statement above. All the same, this was only a very brief moment in 35006's history. I've seen more pictures of it like this in preservation than with the "West of England" headcode discs which would have been its most common guise for most of its working career.
     

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