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    WEST COAST SUPER POWER TAKES OVER SEVERN VALLEY

    Oct 15, 2018 5 minutes
    ➜ Additional reporting:
    Cedric Johns.
    JED BENNET T
    KENNY FELSTEAD
    JOHN TITLOW
    ANDREW BELL

    Just one of the special guests at the Severn Valley Railway’s autumn steam gala booked for this year’s showpiece event would have been a big crowd puller in itself.

    However, the gala featured two iconic locomotives making their comebacks after overhaul and repairs – LMS Princess Coronation Pacific No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland and BR Standard Pacific No. 70000 Britannia. Add those to LMS Princess Royal 4-6-0 No. 46100 Royal Scot, and you had three generations of West Coast Main Line super power!

    Not only that, but the high-profile gala also had a sub plot, with two centenarians showing their worth in the year of their 100th birthdays – NER Q6 0-8-0 No. 63395 from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which had never been this far south before – and home-based GWR 2-8-0 No. 2857.

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