A last batch of pictures from back at Easter (to be honest, we'd missed a couple of folders which we'd drafted but hadn't posted earlier in the year).
We stopped off at Kiderminster on the Severn Valley Railway, with a Sunday to spare, because it was their Spring Steam Gala and they had A4 Pacific "Sir Nigel Gresley" visiting. Having only seen it in bits at York, whilst it was being mended, I (Ben) really wanted to get some shots of it in steam. We arrived at Kiddy in time to get some shots around the station, whilst we waited for the A4 to arrive.
Lighting was a tad tricky, so we went for some monochrome shots and close ups.
This shot, incidentally, prompted the project later in the year with close-ups of steam loco running gear, which ended up in the D31 Exhibition at Doncaster.
Visiting Austerity tank loco "Welsh Guardsman" and resident Pannier 7714 (which we'd photographed at the KWVR earlier in the year). Photography angles were tricky, not helped by the fact the railway wouldn't sell us any platform tickets; I can kind of see why they'd want to maximise revenue, but as we only had an hour before heading back to Yorkshire, we couldn't justify the expense of £22 in tickets for a one-stop return each just to stroll onto the platform for a couple of shots.
Something of a contrast in steam motive power.
On the way out of town, we stopped off at Falling Sands for a couple of shots. At least the weather was behaving here.
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