Class 50s at 50 years.. SVR Gala October 2018

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The past weekend has seen the SVR Class 50's at 50 event, featuring 11 class 50s taking over all line services on the Severn Valley Railway.
Both weather and passenger loads were very good, 8 coach trains in operation and very well loaded.

Here's a couple of pictures of the event..

Present:
50006 Neptune (Blue) - in spirit on one side only - 50007
50007 Hercules (Blue)
50008 Thunderer (Engineers Blue) - Air braked only, limited to Kidderminster - Arley Freight
50011 Centurion (Large Logo Blue) - in spirit on one side only - 50049
50015 Valiant (Large Logo Blue)
50017 Royal Oak (NSE) - 1 round trip per day
50026 Indomitable (Revised NSE) - non-operational
50031 Hood (Intercity)
50033 Glorious (Undercoat) - Write a message on it for £5, offer taken up by hundreds. Mostly doing Kidderminster - Bewdley Shuttle, but 1 full line on Friday
50035 Ark Royal (1980s Blue)
50044 Exeter (1970s Blue)
50049 Defiance (Large Logo Blue)
50050/D400 Fearless (As withdrawn Blue)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2021 by adb968008

[Liam]

Was Glorious' livery really gold with lots of supportive messages?

 

You probably saw my dad as he was signalling at Highley yesterday.

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Was Glorious' livery really gold with lots of supportive messages?

You probably saw my dad as he was signalling at Highley yesterday.

I most certainly would have, I spent a bit of time at Highley the last few days, busy place with 50008 running in/out/runround with its engineers ballast train on several occasions.

 

50033 was indeed in undercoat, for £5 you could write a message, and there are hundreds of messages, of all kinds, so presumably the repaint has substantial funds raised towards it.

Edited October 6, 2018 by adb968008

[brian daniels]

Interesting new ventilation on 50033 as well.

[Iron Horse]

It was a truly awesome event. Words cannot thank the organisers and volunteers enough for making it THE highlight of my railway year 

[Gilbert]

The past weekend has seen the SVR Class 50's at 50 event, featuring 11 class 50s taking over all line services on the Severn Valley Railway.

Both weather and passenger loads were very good, 8 coach trains in operation and very well loaded.

 

Here's a couple of pictures of the event..

 

Present:

50006 Neptune (Blue) - in spirit on one side only - 50007

50007 Hercules (Blue)

50008 Thunderer (Engineers Blue) - Air braked only, limited to Kidderminster - Arley Freight

50011 Centurion (Large Logo Blue) - in spirit on one side only - 50049

50015 Valiant (Large Logo Blue)

50017 Royal Oak (NSE) - 1 round trip per day

50026 Indomitable (Revised NSE) - non-operational

50031 Hood (Intercity)

50033 Glorious (Undercoat) - Write a message on it for £5, offer taken up by hundreds. Mostly doing Kidderminster - Bewdley Shuttle, but 1 full line on Friday

50035 Ark Royal (1980s Blue)

50044 Exeter (1970s Blue)

50049 Defiance (Large Logo Blue)

50050/D400 Fearless (As withdrawn Blue)

Your photos are scarily like mine...https://www.flickr.com/photos/103471893@N02/

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Your photos are scarily like mine...https://www.flickr.com/photos/103471893@N02/

Great minds...

 

I like that one of 50131 in intercity next to 50026 Indomitable... it could have been...

 

Heres not many things can out sound a class 50... but boy the class 68 is loud... i heard it a couple of times drawing out of the Network Rail platform at Kiddy drowning out the class 50 in front of me on the SVR platform.

Edited October 7, 2018 by adb968008