Watercress Line - Spring Steam Gala March 5, 2010

3 DAYS OF STEAM FILLED FUN AND MEMORIES!
AN INTENSIVE TIMETABLE IN OPERATION THROUGHOUT THE EVENT INCLUDING:
DOUBLE HEADING
DEMONSTRATION FREIGHT TRAINS
NAMED TRAIN SPECIALS
GREAT COMPETITIONS
AND MORE!
TORNADO
OUR HEADLINE GUEST AND STAR ATTRACTION ! ARTHUR PEPPERCORN’S A1 CLASS No. 60163 ‘TORNADO’ THE FIRST STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TO BE BUILT IN BRITAIN FOR ALMOST 60 YEARS !
HER FIRST EVER VISIT TO US HERE AT THE ‘WATERCRESS LINE’. DON’T MISS THIS CHANCE TO SEE HER WITH FELLOW MAINLINE REGULAR AND LNER GREYHOUND ‘BITTERN’.
BITTERN
SIR NIGEL GRESLEY’S FINEST - A4 CLASS No 60019 ‘BITTERN’, SISTER TO MALLARD THE WORLD STEAM SPEED RECORD HOLDER. THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING OPPORTUNITIES TO RIDE BEHIND HER BEFORE SHE LEAVES FOR SOUTHALL !



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A YUGOSLAVIAN BUILT CLASS 62 USA TYPE 0-6-0 TANK THAT WAS BUILT IN 1960. SHE IS BASED ON THE WWII USATC S100 CLASS SHUNTER THAT USED TO WORK AT SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS DURING THE WAR AND LATER ACQUIRED BY THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY IN 1946 FROM THE US ARMY.



LORD NELSON
DESIGNED BY R.E.L MAUNSELL, LORD NELSON ENTERED SERVICE ON THE FORMER SOUTHERN RAILWAY IN 1926 AS AN EXPRESS PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE. IT WAS THE MOST POWERFUL IN BRITAIN AT THE TIME. LORD NELSON IS TODAY PART OF THE NATIONAL COLLECTION.



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THE 9F CLASS DESIGNED BY ROBERT RIDDLES. THESE WERE THE LAST STANDARD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES BUILT FOR BRITISH RAIL. INTENDED FOR FAST, HEAVY FREIGHT TRAINS, THEY WERE ALSO USED ON PASSENGER SERVICES ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOMERSET & DORSET LINE. THE 9Fs WERE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL LOCOMOTIVES BUILT IN BRITAIN.



WADEBRIDGE
ALSO REPRESENTING THE EX SOUTHERN REGION IS OUR VERY OWN BULLEID WEST COUNTRY No. 34007 ‘WADEBRIDGE’. THIS 4-6-2 WAS ONE OF HER CLASS THAT RETAINED THE ORIGINAL AIR-SMOOTHED CASING AND WERE NICK NAMED ‘SPAM CANS’ DUE TO THEIR SHAPE

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