Category Archives: Severn Valley Railway

Severn Valley Railway Winter Steam Gala, 04/01/25. Part 4. 7812, 7714 & 1450.

This is the final video of the steam locos on this day. I had walked from the footbridge to the station to get a hot drink from the Museum and timed it for the arrival of Erlestoke Manor. Then back to the footbridge to see the tank locos arriving and Manor departure. There had been a lot of diesel shunting which I filmed from the footbridge and that will be uploaded after this video

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Severn Valley Railway Winter Steam Gala, 04/01/25. Part 2. 75069, 13268 & 46045.

Part 2, 75069 arrives, 13268 departs, 75069 runs round & departs. 46045 doing a bit of shunting, but the diesel clips will be uploaded when steam videos completed. 46045 was stabled under the footbridge when I started filming the arrival of 75069, it was ticking over and sounded quite loud!!

The larger photos can be viewed in my photo gallery, watch the YouTube video from the image below or have a quick look through the photos further down the page.

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Severn Valley Railway Winter Steam Gala, 04/01/25. Part 1. 13268, 7714 & 1450.

First part, filmed from the footbridge at Kidderminster. A very cold and misty start to the day, three of the six locos in steam are seen in this video.

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Severn Valley Railway Winter Diesel Day video-1. 30/12/24. Too many numbers to list here.

I’ve finished the first video from this event. A lot of numbers of units/locos seen in the 10 minute video at Kidderminster – 20205, 20048, 1450, 43094, 43122, 40106, 50035, D9551, M51941, E59250, M52064 & 172333. Started filming at track level but moved up on to footbridge as the sun was very bright and low in the sky, the forecast was cloudy, but that was wrong!

Bit out of practice on this, but think this will link to the video:-

Severn Valley Railway Winter Diesel Day part 2. 30/12/24.

Up on the footbridge for the rest of my time at Kidderminster. It was very windy and not easy filming towards the sun when facing south, it was very bright and low in the sky.

This link will show all the Diesel Day photos in the gallery.

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Severn Valley Railway Winter Diesel Day part 1. 30/12/24.

Caught the train to Kidder, good job – as car park at SVR station was full, cars everywhere as some of the photos will probably show. I’d checked the timetable and made a list of locos running, if I could get there in time to see the 10.20 departure, by 13.55 I would’ve seen all the locos/trains running, except the 37. The forecast was cloudy, thought I’d give the footbridge a miss, but it turned out to be a very sunny day and being at track level meant a lot of filming was into the sun, so ended up on the footbridge.

Locos booked to run:- 1450 steam – for heating, D1015, D9551, 20048, 20205, 33108, 37263, 40106, 46045, 50035, DMU & HST. All can be seen in action, except the 37, which was stabled at the buffer stop on one of the platforms all the time I was there.

Here are the photos taken before going on the footbridge:-

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