Click the thumbnail to view the full sized images, which measure 600 pixels on the longest side, and are around 50k in size. Please read my copyright notes if you want to use them in any way The forecast for the weekend had been good. I'd spent the previous day on the narrow gauges (see Justine and Lydia), and still had a day in hand while the good lady was otherwise occupied - so I'd planned to spend part, at least, of Sunday on the Severn Valley - it would be the last day of their Autumn Steam Gala. As usual, there would be visiting locomotives - including 41241, the Ivatt tank from the Worth Valley, and GNR N2 1744 from the Great Central. I'd first met the Ivatt more than 40 years ago on the Worth Valley - and the N2 likewise in 1970. The N2 has recently been restored to Great Northern livery - should be worth seeing...
In the event, Sunday was quite dull and gloomy - the light was flat. So it was a short trip - but timed to perfection, as the first train past my chosen spot, near Eardington, was double-headed by 41241 and recently-repaired 43106. (Black engines on a dull grey day - oh dear)...
...and the next northbound train, heading up the bank and working hard, was the N2 and a rake of no less than 7 teak coaches - magnificent! The SVR is really good at these things - a local dashed up the bank, in the form of a very-authentic looking 4566 and a 2-coach GWR set. When 42968 followed some time later, it was hauling a rake of 8 LMS coaches - tremendous stuff. Video Clip: No video? Get the Adobe Flash Player plugin here
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; "The Gresley train - 1744 and 7 teak coaches")
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; "Drifting back down - panned")
; "A pair of Ivatts - 41241 and 43106")
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; "42968 and LMS stock")