Vol 19: Mainline 2007, Part 2: GW, BR & SR Locomotives

There’s plenty of variety in this volume, with 7 GW locos, 2 BR Standards and 2 Southern locos. Highlights include Bradley Manor’s last mainline trips, 6024 and 5051 double-heading, fantastic glints from 9466 and 35028, Duke of Gloucester setting new standards on the South Devon Banks, and Sir Lamiel making a night departure from Salisbury. My personal favourite? Clan Line climbing Parkstone Bank, from a standing start at Poole, pulling 13 carriages and an EWS diesel, then roaring through Basingstoke, whistle open, really takes some beating!

YouTube clip: Clan Line at Steventon

(1 hour 25 mins)

7802 Bradley Manor (11:48)

10^th Mar The Cider Express (Hereford-Severn Tunnel-Bishops Lydeard) Pontrilas, Llanvihangle, Cattybrook, Bristol Temple Meads.

28^th Mar The Severn Valley Wanderer (Bristol-Hereford-Kidderminster) Narroways Junction, Bristol.

5051 Earl Bathurst (1:06)

1^st Mar The St Davids Day Special (Swansea-Severn Tunnel-Badminton-Paddington) South Morton.

5051 Earl Bathurst & 6024 King Edward I (5:34)

31^st Mar. The Royal Duchy (Bristol Parkway-Penzance) Beam Bridge, Rattery, St Germans.

6024 King Edward I (6:37)

17^th Mar The King Circular (Solihull-Didcot-Kemble-Cheltenham-Kidderminster-Tyseley) Banbury.

12^th May The Bath And Bristol (Willesden-Newbury-Bristol-Swindon-Didcot) Crofton, Wantage Rd.

9^th Jun The Cambrian Coast Express (Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton-Solihull-High Wycombe-Paddington) Cropredy, Ardley.

26^th Aug The Torbay Express (Bristol-Kingswear-Bristol) Cockwood Harbour, Stoke Cannon.

4965 Rood Ashton Hall & 4953 Pitchford Hall (9:41)

5^th May The Chiltern Steam Express [Moor St-Marylebone and return) Knightcote, Kings Sutton, West Wycombe.

19^th May Two Halls To Bristol (Solihull Oxford-Swindon-Badminton-Bristol and return) Wantage Rd, Oxford.

22^nd Sept. SVR Gala Shuttle (Bewdley-Snow Hill) Bewdley, Kidderminster.

Pannier Tank 9466 (11:40)

3^rd Nov The Pannier To Ironbridge (Tyseley-Birch Coppice-Walsall-Ironbridge-Walsall-Tyseley) Lea Marston, Kingsbury, Birch Coppice, Kingsbury Junction, Minworth, Aldridge, Shifnal, Coalbrookdale, Albrighton.

71000 Duke Of Gloucester (09:03)

28^th May The Devonian (Bristol-Taunton-Plymouth and return) Beam Bridge, Tiverton Junction, Dainton, Rattery, Hemerdon, Dainton, Stoke Cannon.

30^th May The Cathedrals Express (Victoria-Reading-Cranmore and return) Fairwood Junction, Westbury.

1^st June Light engine move. Yarnton.

BR Std 4 2-6-0 76079 (1:23)

1^st July The Bright’n Breezy (Bristol-Salisbury-Preston Park, Brighton-PrestonPark) Upton Scudamore.

35028 Clan Line (20:26)

17^th Feb VSOE Hampshire Luncheon Special (Victoria-Andover-Southampton-Winchester-Victoria) Deane, Micheldever.

14^th Mar VSOE Special (Victoria-Staines-Salisbury-Westbury-Newbury-Staines-Victoria) Red Post Junction, Stockton, Stert.

21^st Apr VSOE Special (Victoria-Didcot, Oxford-Victoria) South Stoke.

12^th May VSOE Hampshire Luncheon Special (Victoria-Richmond-Andover-Eastleigh-Wimbledon-Brixton-Victoria) Steventon (Hants.)

30^th May VSOE Special (Victoria-Westbury-Victoria) Bishopstrow, Westbury.

8^th Jul The Waterloo Sunset (Waterloo-Salisbury-Southampton-Eastleigh, Poole-Southampton-Winchester-Waterloo) Deane, Grateley, Petersfinger Salisbury, Poole Park, Parkstone, Micheldever, Basingstoke.

11^th Dec VSOE Surrey Xmas Luncheon Special (Victoria-Guildford-Victoria) Shere.

30777 Sir Lamiel (6:22)

28^th Oct The Cathedrals Express (Clapham Jc-Honiton-Exeter, Westbury-Salisbury-Clapham Jc) Andover.

11^th Dec The Cathedrals Express Carol Concert Special (London-Salisbury and return) Egham, Winchfield, Salisbury.