West Somerset Railway Winter Steam Festival 2011

Quite possibly the windiest event I've been to!

The final event on the West Somerset Railway for 2011 was the Annual Winter Steam Festival, this years festival took place on Wednesday 28th & Thursday 30th December 2011.
The festival this year was to see the launch into traffic of Great Western Hall 6960 'Raveningham Hall' after a heavy overall.

The full line up -
|GWR 4-6-0 6960 'Raveningham Hall'
|BR(W) 4-6-0 7828 Norton Manor
|GWR 2-8-0 3850
|WSR 2-6-0 9351 'Mogul' Class 9351
|SDJR '7F' 2-8-0 no 88

This video was filmed over both days of the event

Shots in the video --
- 7828 at Bishops Lydeard waiting with the 10:05 service to Minehead
- 7828 at Nethercott
- 7828 departing Crowcombe
- 6960 at Watersmeet
- 6960 at Nornvis Bridge
- 88 arrives into Crowcombe
- 3850 passes 88 at Crowcombe
- 7828 passes through Doniford Halt with a Bishops Lydeard service
- 88 arrives into Doniford Halt
- 88 Near Roebuck
- 9351 coast down the gradient outside Crowcombe
- 6960 is seen at Washford at the top of the climb
- 3850 at Leigh Woods

Happy New Year!

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• West
• Somerset
• Railway
• Winter
• Steam
• Festival
• 2011
• 7828
• 6960
• 3850
• 9351
• 88
• steam
• trains
• locomotives
• Minehead
• Bishops
• Lydeard

[wooltman]

You got some great shots,pity about the strong wind though,but still scores 10/10 for me.Happy New and good filming.Regards Chris.

[AndreiTupolev]

Nice to see 6960 back in action. Possibly got a bit of a leak, but I'm sure they'll soon get that sorted. They've done a good job, putting two locos back in steam recently.

[GWRDec]

very nice, liked the shots from doniford of 7828 and 88! also liked the stills of 7828 at BL

nice to see 6960 in steam too

Liked!

[JBTEvans]

Nice video mate, enjoyed 7828 at the start after the stills of her and then 3850 at Leigh Woods amongst others, thumbs up!