Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway - 'Cotswold Festival of Steam' 25/05/2019

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The 'Cotswold Festival of Steam' has earned its place as a highly regarded event on the Gala-Calendar over recent years. This years rendition, held over the 25th-27th of May, paid testimony to this as the Gala brought together various locomotive designs; including designs of the Southern Railway (SR), London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) as well as the Great Western Railway (GWR)
In keeping with 'Festival of Steam' tradition, the event was run under a theme - this year being "Northern Soul"; echoing the origins of two of the visiting locomotives to the event: B1 Class - 1264, and 439 Class - 419. The event would see no fewer than 8 steam locomotives gracing the metals of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, working the full current line length of 15 miles between Cheltenham Racecourse and Broadway.
Also making a return visit for this year, 6023 "King Edward II" will be staying at the railway for the duration of the Summer months, courtesy of the Didcot Railway Centre.
Locomotives:
Ex-SR Rebuilt 'Merchant Navy' Class - 35006 "Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co."
GWR 2800 Class - 2807
GWR 4200 Class - 4270
BR(W) 7800 'Manor' Class - 7820 "Dinmore Manor"
LNER B1 Class - 1264
BR(W) 6959 Modified 'Hall' Class - 7903 "Foremarke Hall"
Ex-GWR 6000 'King' Class - 6023 "King Edward II"
Rounding-off the visiting trio, Caledonian Railway's 439 Class - 419, made its debut visit to the Cotswolds as part of the 419's' on-going UK tour. Due to the locomotive failing with a hot bearing a couple of days before the gala, 419 was limited to light shunting manoeuvres around Winchcombe for most of the day - as such, the locomotive doesn't feature in this video.
All footage filmed on Saturday the 25th of May 2019.

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@locowerke 5 жыл бұрын

excellent line up for this gala, and a great video production at your usual high standard; thanks for posting your efforts!

@TheSouthernerYTChannel 5 жыл бұрын

It certainly was a Gala I couldn't miss. Thanks very much for your kind words, they are very much appreciated!

@howarth004 5 жыл бұрын

Nice captures ,looks a great event

@joelightrailway2362 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video & filming mate 👍😉 I was going to attending the event, but I decided to visit the railway on their normal timetable and to see the visiting LNER B1 in action during next Saturday.

@Pirate-Scorcher-1998 5 жыл бұрын

Spectacular video. Wish I was there to meet the locomotives especially King Edward 2 but the problem was it was too far where I live However at east Lancashire railway there’s a 1940s weekend going on what’s not far from me so I been there twice and I enjoyed it. Probably heading back tomorrow

@tweets8284 5 жыл бұрын

my fav train..great!

@Locos-del-oeste 5 жыл бұрын

Super video !!!😉👍

@TheSouthernerYTChannel 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@SimonTog 5 жыл бұрын

Very good work, thumbs up :)

@TheSouthernerYTChannel 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much

@AndreiTupolev 5 жыл бұрын

They've already taken 419 back to Bo'ness once to try to get it sorted. The "northern" theme seemed a little tenuous, with five of the seven engines coming from Swindon and one from Eastleigh, a Big Engine gala would have been a better term.

@TheSouthernerYTChannel 5 жыл бұрын

While I agree that the theme was very much 'hanging by a thread', I feel it still works on the grounds of the home-fleet locos vs visiting locos. Given 2 of the 3 visitors were of Nothern descent, and therefore very much away from home (unlike the influx of home-fleet GWR locos), I feel it still represents the visiting locos quite well. Though I do see your point.

@matthewpalmer2049 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSouthernerYTChannel as being a volunteer at the gwsr, the theme was a tad off but we would have had a third northern guest if didcot didn't want to have the hall for the summer and swap for the king. Plus we couldn't do anything about 419's problem, as it was too late and we weren't told about the fault till after it broke, so we had no time to sort it. Sorry. But the gala was a good success and was a fabulous event anyways.