Great Central Railway '2011 Winter Steam Gala' 29/01/11 Part 1

My first visit to the Great Central Railway for their Winter Steam Gala, the theme for the gala was Banbury in the late 1950's so the gala featured mainly GWR locos but also had locos from all of the 'Big Four' railway companies.

The full line up of locos included:

- ex-GWR 3700 Class 4-4-0 no.3717 'City Of Truro'
- ex-GWR 1400 Class 0-4-2T no.1450
- ex-GWR 2884 Class 2-8-0 no.3850
- ex-GWR 4900 Class 'Hall' 4-6-0 no.4953 'Pitchford Hall'
- ex-GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T no.5526
- ex-LMS Black 5 4-6-0 no.45305 'Alderman A.E. Draper'
- ex-SR N15 Class 4-6-0 no.30777 'Sir Lamiel'
- ex-LNER K4 Class 2-6-0 no.61994 'The Great Marquess'

Shots include:

- 45305 arriving at Quorn.
- 3850 departing Quorn with a train of wind cutters, passing 1450 arriving into Quorn with a two coach local.
- 3717 thundering through Quorn with the 10:33am TPO (I realise it says 10:30 on the video, woops)
- 61994 passing through Quorn with the return wind cutters.
- 45305 departing Quorn for Leicester.
- 30777 arriving at Quorn.
- On-board 30777's train to Loughborough (apologies if it's a bit shaky, I was freezing)
- 30777 backing off her train at Loughborough to take on water, then moving off
- 61994 moving off to the front of the train brought in by 30777 in readiness to double-head with 4953
- A look around Loughborough engine shed
- 45305 taking the TPO stock to Loughborough station ready for departure

Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HD Camcorder

Enjoy

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[itfcsam]

I'm gonna hve to look this place up now! I need to go!

[letmadnessbegin]

@itfcsam yeah, it's a fantastic railway. Thanks for looking and commenting =)

[howarth004]

Love that observation car, good one

[letmadnessbegin]

@howarth004 thank you =)

[BristolCastle]

Excellent Part 1 shame i didn't go as i wanted too :(

[letmadnessbegin]

@BristolCastle cheers mate, yeah shame you didn't go, it was a great gala. I see you've found me on Facebook now then ;-)

[itfcsam]

@letmadnessbegin Nothing appears to be open this weekend lol! Gonna have to stick to the models

[BristolCastle]

@letmadnessbegin

Yup :P