'Double Headed Delight in Downpour'
Just goes to show how changeable Winter's weather can be but what a spectacular smoke and steam effect it can produce! Well worth the soaking!
Two days earlier - it was glorious sunshine when I was here - now I'm sheltering from the driving rain and wind under Beeches Road Bridge Loughborough.
It's 14.30pm on 29.1.2017 the final day of the Great Central Railway's 2017 Winter Steam Gala. Piloting LMSR Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 is BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 78018, still looking great, after its inaugural run 3 month's earlier after completion of its restoration.
'Double Headed Delight in Downpour'
Just goes to show how changeable Winter's weather can be but what a spectacular smoke and steam effect it can produce! Well worth the soaking!
Two days earlier - it was glorious sunshine when I was here - now I'm sheltering from the driving rain and wind under Beeches Road Bridge Loughborough.
It's 14.30pm on 29.1.2017 the final day of the Great Central Railway's 2017 Winter Steam Gala. Piloting LMSR Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 is BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 78018, still looking great, after its inaugural run 3 month's earlier after completion of its restoration.