The Railway Magazine – July 2019

‘Modified Hall’No. 6960Raveningham Hallleaves Oldbury

Cutting with the 10.55 service to Kidderminster on May 25. This

was the 4-6-0’s first day in traffic at the Severn Valley Railway

since arriving from the West Somerset Railway in an exchange

for No. 7802Bradley Manor.KENNY FELSTEAD

Hunslet 0-6-0ST No. 18Jessie, complete in full Eastmoors

Steelworks livery, returned to its first preservation-era

railway in early June when it took part in the Dean Forest

Railway gala. The loco was visiting from the Pontypool &

Blaenavon Railway and here stands at Parkend on June 9.

ALISTAIR GRIEVE

The first steam double-headed tender locos on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in decades –‘A’class 0-6-0 No. 52322 and BR‘2MT’No. 78018 – tackle the final climb

to Wirksworth during the line’s gala on June 15.ROBERT FALCONER

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