FOUR in STEAM at the FORTIES event!!!! Severn Valley Rly. 24th June 2023 

enjoyable as usual Phil many thanks!!!!

Some amusing anomalies for a 1940's weekend ! BR designs didn't of course begin appearing until 1951. So BR Standard Class 4, 4-6-0 75069 (built 30/09/55) is a bit before its time. But Bulleid West Country 4-6-2 numbered here as 21C127 "Taw Valley", wasn't rebuilt until 1957 into its current form. It would in 1946 when built, have had an "air smoothed casing" & of course original chain drive type valve gear. And in addition never operated in wartime black with "Southern" on the tender, only in BR liveries. Of course the same applies to the BR Mk1 coaching stock in use here, which also did not appear before 1951 !!!

Veryh good Phil! I remember the Forties!!!!!

Excellent video and camera work as usual Phil keep it up bye for now Philip

Good catch that...not many of them left now.

26:51 the loco you can see on the left is 2857 now withdrawn from service

A Pannier Tank pulling 8 coaches. That’s well ‘ard! Remind me again how we ended up with 2-car Pacer trains for 30 years?

7:06 I can hear the bagpipe playing in the background

Great video Phil, this was filmed on my birthday :)

What, incidentally, is it with all these numbers that people have acquired after their names now? 🤔

I was hoping for a Class 40-themed gala 😕

Let's hope 2857 comes back to life. Nice to see four steamies running although I'm not keen on Taw Valley, who should have been repainted green by now. The sooner she gets an overhaul the better, otherwise she might never run again. I can think of some Southern Steam enthusiasts out there, who would be devastated if she had to be disposed of.