The Severn Valley Railway has announced that 35006 Peninsular and Oriental S N Co will be visiting them for their Autumn Steam Gala.
It will be 35006’s first visit to the heritage railway, which will also reintroduce overnight running on the Friday and Saturday of the event, which takes place between the 18th and 21st September.
Six members of the SVR home fleet will be in action, 4930 Hagley Hall, 7714, 7802 Bradley Manor, 13268, 75069 and 1450, the latter operating as an Autotrain.
It’s especially exciting for us to make this announcement, as 35006 has never visited us before. We’re grateful to both the 35006 Locomotive Company Ltd and the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway for agreeing to its appearance at our event.
‘It’s particularly pleasing to be able to bring back overnight running at our autumn steam gathering. This will see the railway operating continuously for a 60-hour stint, from early Friday morning to mid-evening on the Sunday. We’ll have two services in operation, and these will stop at all stations. Mounting this sort of operation is a huge undertaking, and we can only do it from time to time. However, the SVR’s 60th anniversary is one of those special occasions, and we can’t wait! ‘For this event of course, we’ll have the full line open again, something we are very much looking forward to seeing, following the repair of the landslip towards the northern end of the line. And we hope to be able to make a further guest announcement soon
SVR managing director, Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster
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