GCR 40th Anniversary of Closure & Preservation Gala. May 2009

Over the weekend of the 8th-10th May the Great Central Railway Celebrated 40 Years since the Great Central main Line Closed in 1969 and 40 Years since a group of enthusiasts took over. Although the actual Date of Closure was on the 3rd May (the previous weekend) over the bank holiday weekend teh GCR for some reason held a Thomas the Tank Engine Event instead, maybe it was to do with a contract with the new company? Ridiculous!

The resident home fleet was in operation with the star being ex.SR 'King Arthur' Class No.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
-ex.SR King Arthur No.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
-BR Standard 2 No.78019
-ex.LMS 8F No.48305
-ex.GCR Robinson 04 No.63601 (in its final months of its Bolier Certificate- a farewell video of the 04 to come)
-Class 27 No.D5401 (27 056)
-Class 46 Peak No.D123 'Leicestershire & Derbyshire Yeomanry' (Saturday Only)
-Class 47 No.D1705 'Sparrowhawk' (Sunday Only)
Please note- all the footage in the film was taken over Sunday only as so D123 does not appear.

A mixture of Mineral trains, Local trains, Post Office trains and express trains were running with a book signing at Loughborough, Bus shuttles to see the new Mountsorrel Branch and display pictures at Rothley. It was a shame to see so little people come but a good event indeed!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• GCR
• 40th
• Anniversary
• Gala
• May
• 2009

[littlegiant18794]

you got a good spot for the tpo mate

[RailwayFanatic92220]

ah! but which one!

[truckduck065]

nice selection. I only wished I had gone now.

5* + fav

[RailwayFanatic92220]

thanks. What I'm doing now is taking lets of footage and selecting the bast bits to make my videos high quality. That TPO with Sir lamiel at the beginning is lucky to be there as we had only just arrived after being stuck behind slow traffic I didn't even have time to make it to my location and set up my tri pod!

[ab5010]

better for it

[RailwayFanatic92220]

I'm quite glad of how it turned out. I might stay there next time and set up my tri pod

[littlegiant18794]

the sir lamiel one. you could see it coming then when you panned round you saw it pick the bags up