Great Central Railway 'Winter Steam Gala' Saturday 25th January 2020

Описание: The Great Central Railway held their annual 'Winter Steam Gala' during the weekend of the 24th - 26th January 2020.

The gala theme was called Eastern region met Western region with London North Eastern Railway K1 Class No.62005(visiting from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway) and Great Western Railway 4900 'Hall' Class No.4953 "Pitchford Hall"(visiting from the Epping Ongar Railway) joins along side the railway home fleet with intensive timetable with mix of passenger and goods trains.

However trains were running right behind time due to a problems with signal and points failures at Loughborough & Swithland as well 10mph speed restriction on a bridge just north of Quorn & Woodhouse that prevented any Travelling Post Office to run for fantastic high speed runs.

The line's home fleet in action were...

British Railways Western Region Hawksworth Modified Hall Class No.6990 "Witherslack Hall"
London Midland & Scottish Railway Class 3F 'Jinty' tank No.47406
London Midland & Scottish Railway Class 5MT No.45305 "Alderman A.E. Draper"
London Midland & Scottish Railway 'Ivatt' Class 2MT No.46521
London Midland & Scottish Railway 8F Class No.48305
British Railways Standard Class 5MT No.73156
British Railway Standard Class 2 No.78018
British Railways Standard Class 9F No.92214

Also visiting the railway was North Eastern Railway Petrol-Electric Railcar No.3170(on courtesy of the N.E.R. 1903 Electric Autocar Trust and visiting from the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway) was running in place of the usual DMU service.

Filmed on Saturday 25th January 2020.