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Watercress Line 2021 S&DJR Themed - Autumn Steam Gala

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Rating: 4.5; Vote: 2

The initials S&DJR conjure up memories of the legendary Pines Express and the difficult route it traversed between Bath and Bournemouth before it succumbed in 1966 as part of the Beeching cuts. Ivo Peters captured the essence of this line in both movies and photos, enabling the modern enthusiast to enjoy the sights and sounds of the steam locomotives he witnessed working this switchback of a route. The Watercress Line operates over an equally challenging route, where better to recreate the S&DJR complete with a selection of locomotives that actually worked the route? The weather on the day I chose to attend, proved to be very challenging with high winds and non-stop heavy rain, adding an extra level of authenticity to the scene. This video starts with the locos coming off shed and travelling light engine to Alresford and Alton to pick up the coaching stock for the first trains of the day, next we visit the line's stations to watch the day-s action before returning to Ropley to watch the engines returning to be readied for the following day. It-s hard to imagine a more authentic recreation of a late 50-s loco shed at night, it had the lot, six engines in steam, crews relaxing and enjoying a joke or two, there was even some drama when the coaching stock for the evening beer train developed a fault leading to plenty of shunting to get a substitute rake of carriages into the correct platform. A good few years ago a builder gave me a carrier bag he-d pulled out of skip on a building site, it contained photographic negatives, he-d held one or two up to the light revealing they featured railways, knowing my interest in all things rail related he gave them to me. I purchased a suitable scanner and began the time consuming job of capturing them in digital format, for many years they resided unseen on the hard drive of my computer. I have never published any of the photos, but as some of the locos featured in the Gala event also featured in some of the photos, this seemed like a good time to reveal a few them, I have included a selection of them at the end of this video. The Watercress Line deserves a big thank you, for taking the financial risk required to get two visiting locos to the line especially for this event. Locomotives in steam on the day: Visiting locomotives: Bullied 4-6-2 -West Country- Class locomotive - No. 34092 -City of Wells- - courtesy of East Lancs Railway. BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4 tank locomotive No. 80151 - courtesy of Bluebell Railway Home-fleet locomotives: S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 No 53808 - courtesy of S&D Railway Trust LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T No. 41312 BR -Standard Class 4- 2-6-0 - No. 76017 Hunslet 0-6-0 No. 3781 affectionately referred to as -Dave- when not acting as -Thomas the Tank Engine- BR Class 20 No. D8059 diesel locomotive also put in an unexpected appearance. The Watercress Line is a standard gauge (4 ft 8 1-2 in) 1, 435 mm heritage railway located in Hampshire, Southern England OldFart: Weatherwise a truly awful day for operating staff and visitors alike but it helped produce a truly memorable video. Thanks for braving it out Tim.
Date: 2022-11-28

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Comments and reviews: 5

Peter
Tim, hopefully the deluge did not dent the efforts to stage such a Gala session with visiting locos, too. The weather is such a variable, particularly in Autumn. Thank you for showing the preparations, personnel & sheer number of volunteers and staff engaged before the downpour. Thank you, also for sharing your evocative recovered images from the latter operating days of the S&DJR.
The Watercress Line have really shown support for the S&D Trust, since they had to leave Washford on the West Somerset Railway, former home to their artefacts for many years.
My parents lived for a while within sight & sound of the Devonshire Bank, ascent from Bath Green Park towards the twin tunnels, since relegated to a cycle track.
Thank you for your great work, producing quality video, as usual.
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Robert
Hi tim, A wonderful railway it was like a day back in the 50s, City of wells was it a mainline passenger engine and where was it based? looking fwd to your next great adventure in germany can't wait for the pictures have a wonderful journey cheer's bob. ps 3 more sleeps and lockdown is over -YOU BLOODY RIPA-.
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Robert
First off i'm getting a haircut my hair looks really daggy then it's off to the pub (club )for a drinks & a flutter on the pokies thanks tim cheer's bob.
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Neil
There's a loco in this video bears the name -City Of Wells! - I'll bet that place would have a lot of holes in the ground! Like Swiss Cheese! LOL
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Andrew
What are the things that they-re handing off to the locomotives? They look like small little pouches with large circular grab handles.
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