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Superpower - 11 steam engine cavalcade

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:16 am
by BR7MT

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:40 am
by 220389
"drools" Mostly GWR :-) and i spot a 56xx :-))))

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:11 pm
by Beetlejuice
Thats awesome, are they all in steam as well? Or are they being dragged? Still looks great though!

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:52 pm
by daniel533
The last 2 or 3 engines seem not to be in steam.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:33 pm
by BR7MT
Oh I think they most certainly are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBLqL2YbTEI

Regards,

Dan

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:45 pm
by daniel533
:oops: couldnt see the steam clearly from the last 2. Must of been a fantastic sight.

Daniel

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:57 pm
by eddief
I think going off the video they were having a "who has the loudest whistle?" competition. Looks like they all had fun.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:02 pm
by dinmore
They were all most definately in steam, but with a line speed of 25 it is obvious they couldn't all be working hard at the same time. I very nearly didnt bother hanging around to take that pic as the time was getting on, they didn't pass on the return run till 19:15 and light was fading quickly.I think it was well worth staying to see it in the end, never seen anything like it :D

Here is the pic again anyway:


Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:03 pm
by 220389
looked so much fun, espically one of my fav loco's where in the line up :-) look at my pic to get the idea.

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:23 pm
by davidaward
220389 wrote:GWR mogul wasn't by the looks of it.
What GWR mogul?

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:22 pm
by 220389
my mistake i meant 3802 (2-8-0) :oops:

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:22 pm
by prairie4566
The SVR should try something like that :o :D They sound lovely, whistling away.

IMO, however, it's not a GWR cavalcade without 4953 :wink: :lol:

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:31 pm
by JonathonAG
Just wondering, is this not one of the largest galas for a heritage railway without a mainline connection???

I mean, the SVR and WSR both pull off big galas on this sort of scale....but most of the visiting locomotives for those arrive by main line.....while all the the 6880 vistors were by road.....a great achievement when you think about it :)

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:46 pm
by 220389
that would be good at the SVR, but would be restricted or have a complex uncoupling and recoupling by going over Victora Bridge

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:45 am
by prairie4566
JonathonAG wrote:Just wondering, is this not one of the largest galas for a heritage railway without a mainline connection???

I mean, the SVR and WSR both pull off big galas on this sort of scale....but most of the visiting locomotives for those arrive by main line.....while all the the 6880 vistors were by road.....a great achievement when you think about it :)
I agree! Loads of visiting locos there.

1450
9466
5224?
4160
5643
78019
34081

And resident locos 7822, 6430, 5199, 3802. :D