{"id":573,"date":"2012-09-24T21:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/?p=573"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:44:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T20:44:39","slug":"vol-05-mainline-2004-mhr-gala-city-of-truro-90-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/vol-05-mainline-2004-mhr-gala-city-of-truro-90-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol 05: Mainline 2004, MHR Gala, City Of Truro 90-92"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As well as nearly an hour of Mainline footage from 2004, this volume includes two short programmes, about The Watercress Line’s spring gala and City Of Truro’s exploits during 1990-92.<\/p>\n

Programme 1: Main Line Album 2004<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The undoubted star of 2004 was GWR 4-4-0 no. 3440, City Of Truro. She gets two long sequences all to herself, one from the late spring\/early summer, and one from the winter.<\/p>\n

Also: Tangmere<\/strong> delighted me on a series of VSOE Pullman trains via Oxford to Worcester; The MHR’s Standard Five<\/strong> once again punched well above her weight (see, for example, her climb through Chalford to Sapperton); The King<\/strong> and the Duke<\/strong> returned after overhaul; Nunney Castle<\/strong> struggled with 10 coaches on the climb to Tytherington Quarry; Taw Valley<\/strong> roared up Upwey bank as she turned a 30 minute late departure from Weymouth into a right-time departure from Eastleigh. All this and Union of South Africa, Flying Scotsman <\/strong>and Rood Ashton Hall<\/strong> too!
\n(Running time: 57 mins)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Programme 2: Mid Hants South Western Gala, 2004<\/span><\/h2>\n

I spent a day trying to dodge the showers (not always successfully, as you’ll see!) to record three visiting tank engines:<\/p>\n