SVR Steam Gala 21 September 2013 - Kidderminster Town Station
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Channel: AaranAardvark · 2013 · Travel & Events
The Severn Valley Autumn Gala videos on my little Sony Bloggie at Kidderminbster SVR Station. The clip starts with a glimpse of Great Western Railway tank engine 5643 and after a toot on the whistle cuts to steam era London North Eastern Railway beautiful teak coaches built between 1922 and 1943. On the front of that train is 'Cheltenham' a 4-4-0 express passenger locomotive built 1934 and on loan to SVR from the National Railway Museum, although this loco is now residing with another steam preservation group at the Mid Hants Railway in Hampshire, southern England. We see an 08 class shunter run in on the front of Great Western brown and cream rolling stock later retrieved by that little marshalling yard workhorse. Finally there is some footage of SVR based Battle of Britain Pacific class ' Sir Keith Park' named after a Kiwi air ace from World War One, a loco which also originated on the Southern Railway before the nationalisation of British Railways in 1948.
