Sunday, 3 October 2021

Great Central Railway Autumn Gala - Leicester north (Birstall): 03/10/2021

 Well, the day could have been kinder... an Osmosis pump failed leaving them short of water... there was a point failure at loughborough which isolated 7 of the locomotives due to run and the persistent rain got heavier as the day wore on... inevitably the timetable fell apart so one steam train was replaced by a DMU and most of the afternoon the loco arriving wasn't what was expected.

On the plus side the cheese and onion rolls and soup in the Tea Room, seeing both the guest locomotives in fairly dry weather and the last train hauled double-headed by a pair of 9F's made the day a good'un anyway!

Double Headed 2 9F locomotives - 92134 & 92214





Stanier Class 5 - 45305





9F 92214 City of Leicester... double chimney version





Deisel Multiple Unit

Standard Class 5 - 73156





Hall Class 6990 Witherslack Hall





Collett 2884 class - 3802





9F - 92134 Single Chimney version





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