Today the garden railway hosted a somewhat rare event: A 'Mixed Traffic' Gala. This saw 4 steam & 3 diesel locomotives taking their turn on both passenger & freight trains. There was also light engine movements and banking demonstrations. The locomotive roster was:-
*2-6-2 ex-GWR 45XX No4560
*0-6-0 ex-GWR 57XX No5775
*4-6-0 ex-LMS Black 5 No45156 "Ayrshire Yeomanry"
*4-6-2 ex-SR Battle fo Britain No34051 "Winston Churchill"
*Class 47 'Duff' 47 844 (Virgin Red)
*Class 31 'Ped' D5572 (BR Green)
*Class 50 'Hoover' named "Furious" (Network SE Livery)
The event included many different movements up and down the line with all of the action being recorded and placed on our Youtube channel. (The two-part video that results can be seen below. You can however see all of our garden railway video's at www.youtube.com/steampics ). Thanks for reading. Tomorrow I'll be back on 5" gauge rails with Sweet Pea Class No499 "John H Owen"...all being well! Good evening.
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