Great Central Railway "Railways at Work" Gala 2023 

Like 50 beautiful video,, greetings 🚂👍🙋‍♂️

Beautiful, Congratulations! Greetings from Romania!❤💛💙

Cracking video mate ,really did enjoy it ,good to see Iris out and about also

FANTASTIV PRESENTATION.

Blimey thar copper reminds me of Jimmy Edwards in The Plank. Whar an enjoyble video, goods trai n s, clank8ng buffers. I reaally like the Scammel Scarab, i remember them in Londonxwhen i was a lad.

Excellent sequence Rhys - lovely variety of action. The goods' loading/unloading parts were fascinating. Congratulations to GCR staff for their achievement in every aspect. My Great Grandfather was a senior GCR signalling inspector, so I have some GCR genes within me!!

What a great video, showing The Great Central in all its glory. it's nice to see all the activity in the yard. The crane lift and the three mechanical horses was a treat.

Enjoyed the video a lot, some great shots here, GCR is one of the greats in heritage railways, we go there every year for the Autumn steam gala, thanks for showing...Mal

Solid camerawork

Great video of a great event. I like your idea of having the lineside views on the Sunday and the goods being loaded, which for me was the main reason to go here, at the start of the video. A pity there is yet another strike looming I was hoping to get to the diesel gala.

The realisation of an impossible dream? Those of us who were struggling to support our heritage rail projects in the early days could never have imagined the heritage rail scene of today. The dedication and skills required to support a line such as this can only be marvelled at. I know for a fact that sacrifices are made by the volunteers to give their leisure time when there are demands by family and the workplace. Remarkable, people just keep giving.

The GCR must be the best heritage line to represent our BR era railway heritage yet always keeping up with the times and pleasing the environmental lobby with weeds growing between the rails.

"Train passed without tail lamp?" That's what I thought at 31:00 when I first saw it. When I was a goods guard in the 1970s I used to have a sort of recurring daydream nightmare that I'd forget to put a tail lamp on my train. When I looked more closely (I had to make a screenshot and zoom in on it), I saw that the train did indeed have a tail lamp (on the middle bracket of the brake van), but it was a tail lamp in a black case. In all my time on the railway (and indeed since) every tail lamp I've ever seen had a white case -- even the modern flashing LED ones. I am vaguely aware that locomotives on some railways (L.M.S.?, G.W.R,?) had lamps with black cases. And I know that steam locomotives had to have a tail lamp when running light. I'm wondering if that's where this lamp came from. Does anyone know anything about its provenance? Another query. At 0:08 there is a class 17 "Clayton" (with immaculate bodywork) pulling some rather ancient looking coaching stock. I think it must be on a preserved line -- presumably on the G.C.R. This surprises me as I thought all the Class 17s were scrapped before preserving diesels became a thing. I also recall that in the late 60's most enthusiasts hated the Claytons. There were still a few if them around when I started at Cadder Yard (near Glasgow) in 1971, but they didn't last long! I only recall once being on the footplate of one; that was to pass on a message to a Millerhill driver in Cadder Up Yard. Of course I have long since forgotten what that message half a century ago was about! Claytons seldom worked passenger trains for BR, as they had no boilers. But for one summer in the '60s the 4:10 p.m. Edinburgh Waverley to Hawick was regularly worked by a Clayton. I think it must have been the summer of 1965. With the start of the winter and steam heating, that train reverted to steam haulage with a B1. So has the G.C.R. somehow managed to get itself a Class 17? How did you manage that? It was actually seeing the Clayton in the first ten seconds that made me watch the rest of this video to see if it appeared again. That it didn't show its face again made it even more fascinating.