The video was taken at the Great Central Railway's Railways at Work event. All the shots were taken at Quorn and Woodhouse station using a Panasonic GH 4 and a DJI Osmo.
Featured on the video in order of appearance are:
BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214
LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45305
LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 46521
Preserved GWR Modified Hall 4-6-0 Witherslack Hall
LMS Class 8F 2-8-0 no 48624
Saturday, 3 September 2016
Our first visit to the North Norfolk Railway for their autumn steam gala.
On a typically cold January morning we
decided to head off and spend the afternoon at the Great Central Railway winter
steam gala. As we arrived I was very surprised by the numbers of enthusiasts
who had decided to visit as well as us. The allotted field for parking was
very wet and some areas were too wet for parking on.
As usual
I expected there would be plenty of action with the railway making full use of
the fact that it has up and down lines so trains come and go all the time. One
of the special guest locomotives was 34053 Sir Keith Park. As we wandered
towards the railway Sir Keith Park was on its way with a demonstration goods
train. We hardly had time to get our cameras set up ready to capture the
moment.
Of course despite a couple of guest
locomotives the Great Central Railway’s home fleet was out in full force with
777 Sir Lamiel soon arriving at Quorn and Woodhouse station.
Newly
restored home fleet Locomotive 6990 Witherslack Hall was also in steam and
captured getting away from Quorn & Woodhouse with a Leicester bound passenger train. We spent the afternoon wandering around the
station premises photographing and videoing as many passing locomotives as we
could. This was in between visits to the cafe for some warming cups of coffee.
The highlight of the afternoon was 34053 Sir
Keith Park working the demonstration mail train at top speed. It’s always a
good spectacle to watch the mail train running through Quorn & Woodhouse. The
mail train is allowed to run much faster than the other passenger and freight
trains and whilst not full out express speed it looks pretty fast compared with
all the slow trains which stop at the station.
By the time we’d had a coffee it was
starting to get a little late in the afternoon and as it had become rather dull so, as the light was starting to fade, we decided to head off home. As we were
leaving we just managed to catch 34053 Sir Keith Park returning with the mail
train to Loughborough.
