Steam Portfolio

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RURAL IDYLL: Framed by the ivy-covered stone overbridge, GWR 0-6-0PT No. 6430 approaches Llwyfan Cerrig on the Gwili Railway in heavy rain during a 30742 Charters photographic event on October 1. The grass-covered track and short goods train recreate a rural railway scene from the past. The loco has been on hire this season from the South Devon Railway. DON BISHOP

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DISPOSAL IN THE DARK: GWR ‘Hall’ No. 4953 Pitchford

Hall starred in a Timeline Events photographic charter at Didcot Railway Centre on September 22. Flanked by No. 5900

Hinderton Hall and restored heritage wagons, the 4-6-0 is pictured during the disposal – the wind caught the embers when the fire was being dumped, giving a nice display.

No. 4953 had visited from the Epping and Ongar Railway for Didcot’s September 23-24 Autumn Steam Gala. DAVE BOWLES 3

SCOTSMAN AT WORK: On the climb out of Settle

No. 60103 Flying Scotsman passes Langcliffe, North Yorkshire on October 14 with The Railway Touring Company’s ‘The Hadrian’. The charter was worked from Derby by West

Coast Class 47s Nos. 47802+47746 in top-and-tail fashion – the former replaced by the ‘A3’ at York which hauled the excursion to Carlisle and back to York. JOHN TITLOW

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STEAM ON THE MOORS: LNER ‘A4’ No. 60007 Sir Nigel

Gresley passes Danholm on September 23 during the

North Yorks Moors Railway’s Autumn Steam Gala. The scene is completed by the loco’s exhaust, the sweeping curve which shows off the carriages, the stone wall and undergrowth, including trees and bracken – not forgetting the sheep on the hillside below the houses. ALAN WEAVER