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Posted: 23 May 2015

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GWR Winchcombe Gloucestershire 23rd May 2015

GWR Winchcombe Gloucestershire 23rd May 2015
Double-headed unrebuilt Bulleid Pacifics 34092 Wells & 34007 Bude enter Winchcombe station with the 14.20 train from Cheltenham on the first day of the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway's Festival of Steam.

Mikeinlagardette, , Polyrus, and 4 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Polyrus
Polyrus
A super shot of the spam cans and it is prompting me to make an effort to go up to the GWR tomorrow!
I have never noticed that semaphore before...which looks as if it should be on the other side of the track.
9 years ago.
Loose_Grip/Pete club has replied to Polyrus
Cheers. The lure of 2 unrebuilt West Countries was what got me there on Saturday. Very crowded but well worth it.
Bi-directional running I guess.
9 years ago.
Polyrus has replied to Loose_Grip/Pete club
It was also very crowded yesterday and mayhem on the platforms. Unfortunately I saw no double-headers whilst I was there - instead they were topping and tailing trains with the two Bulleids.
9 years ago.
Loose_Grip/Pete club has replied to Polyrus
That's a shame. They were topping & tailing from Toddington to Laverton only on Saturday.
9 years ago.
 Mikeinlagardette
Mikeinlagardette
Nice photo of an unusual combination for Gloucestershire! Bravo!
9 years ago.
Loose_Grip/Pete club has replied to Mikeinlagardette
Thanks Mike. You don't often see double-headed WCs so it was worth the trip.
9 years ago.
 Mikeinlagardette
Mikeinlagardette
No, and it's a long time since any Southern trains were near Cheltenham!

It was once the most northerly outpost of the Southern, - there was a daily service from Lansdown (later from St. James), to and from Southampton Central, via Andoversford, Swindon & Marlborough. I made the round trip during the last week before closure, in 1961, I think! (shows my age!)

They were nearly always "U" class locos, I don't think they ever ran spamcans on that line, but Cheltenham would often field a GWR mogul for the morning train down.

Mike
9 years ago.
Loose_Grip/Pete club has replied to Mikeinlagardette
I recently read an interesting article about the MSWJR in a recent issue of Back Track, I think it was.
Pete
9 years ago.

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