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10 October:
- The photo from John Fry is one of several new ones illustrating the continuing progress on 34059 "Sir Archibald Sinclair", in a news report on the Bulleid Society web site.
- Galleries of photos of 9017 on the SVR in a charter with 3440, on 1st October from Paul Maycock, and from Don Bishop.
- Photos of the Dukedog at the SVR Gala last month:
- Richard W. Jones taken on September 20th (on Oldbury Viaduct) and 21st (with goods train), and his full gallery from the Gala
- Adam Gane: at Bridgnorth, at Arley
- Kieran Hardy: at Waterworks Crossing, at Bridgnorth, ready to leave Bridgnorth, departing from Hampton Loade and a wider shot showing more of the train, and several in the evening with goods train
- Matthew Toms: atmospheric B&W shot, and at Bewdley
- Tom Clarke: approaching Orchard Crossing, passing the safari park, with City of Truro and again
- Phil Metcalfe: departing Bridgnorth shed, on shed
- P Sharp: at Bewdley, again, and another, approaching Bewdley, four of it double heading with 3440, three of it with 7802, nine of the double header with 3440 passing the safari park, a sequence of 12 photos of it departing Highley, seven of it arriving at Kidderminster with 3440, six more around Kidderminster and finally some more departing from Highley,
- Chris Harrison: Gallery of photos
9 October:
- Further details added for the S&D-themed Autumn Steam Gala on Friday 17th - Sunday 19th October. 7 locos will be working over the event, including two visitors - Somerset and
Dorset Joint Railway class 7F No.53809 and LMS Jinty 0-6-0T No.47493. Further information about these locos has been added to the Operational Locomotives page.
- The photo from Andrew Strongitharm taken late yesterday afternoon shows Fenchurch with an Autumn Tints special - he has a couple of photos available.
- Notice on the Members' Information Page from Roger Kelly with an update on Progress with the Share Issue - £375,000 has been raised so far.
- Also a notice from Gavin Bennett, reporting with great sadness the death of long time volunteer Pat Berry - further information and details of funeral arrangements.
- Online and telephone booking for the Santa Specials is now open.
- Tim Baker tells me that the Victorian Christmas specials are booking up fast, with most of the first class compartments already taken.
- Update to details of the Murder Mystery & Mayhem evenings on the Golden Arrow for 2009 - the remaining dates for this year are sold out, barring cancellations.
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We are getting so many photo galleries submitted that we have decided that only the best, or most interesting can now be featured here.
Please note that some photos included below are taken by volunteers and staff during the course of their duties, and so may have been taken in areas not open to the general public. These photos are very valuable, since they enable the public to see these otherwise hidden facets of the railway, but visitors to the railway should note that they may be unable to visit these locations themselves.
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2 October:
- We now have another visitor to join the S&D 2-8-0 for the S&D themed Autumn Steam Gala - the Spa Valley Railway has released the news that they hope that their LMS Jinty will be visiting us, subject to final confirmation. Since 47493 is also now on our Loco Roster, newly updated by Lewis Nodes (covering October, November and December), we can confirm this to be correct!
- Great photographic coverage in several monthly railway magainzes in the last week, featuring the goods train with the double-headed SECR locos, and also of the Dukedog on the SVR - coverage of the Dukedog appears to have eclipsed even City of Truro's presence on the line!
- Dave Clarke's photos of the charter with the C and the O1 are now on his fotopic site. Paul Pettitt also has one as the October's Picture of the Month on his site.
26 September:
24 September:
- Update on the Society Members' Information pages with the notes from the July Committee meeting which are now available.
- The photographic charter on 13 September which featured the two SECR 0-6-0s on a goods train has provided the photos (from David Haggar) shown here. Those below include one featuring an Austin 7 car in the Carriage Yard at Horsted Keynes. A video on YouTube is also available from Jon Bowers. Jon says a very big thank-you to everyone involved in the charter. To the train crew and signalmen for
coming in for what was a very early start; to the Ops department and
shunters for assembling a train that really looked "the business"; to George
Jones for providing the vintage car; to everyone who helped out with the
lineside clearance, and to the workshop staff who got 592 running.
22 September:
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