THE West Somerset Railway’s October 3-6 autumn steam gala will focus on the carriage of parcels, luggage and light goods passenger services between rural stations.
Scenes once commonplace at country stations, especially on classic seaside routes like the Minehead branch, which saw passengers’ luggage arrive in advance and local produce loaded onto passenger trains, with porters seen wheeling trolleys of goods and parcels around stations in anticipation of the next arrival, are to be recreated during the event.
The first visiting locomotive for the gala will be a former resident, GWR 0-6-0PT No. 6412, the star of in the 1970s TV series ‘The Flockton Flyer’that was filmed on the line, and which was later sold to current owner the South Devon Railway because the WSR needed more powerful locomotives.
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