They put on a good gala weekend on the GCR. Double track helps a lot, of course, as it allows a very intensive timetable to be followed, but so does careful planning, including guest locos from other heritage railways. I was particularly pleased to see the new-build Grange Class No. 6880 Betton Grange making her first visit to the line.
This was a great day, wasn't it, Mike? A couple of weeks earlier Betton Grange had been at the Battlefield Line Winter Steam gala too. I have a video of it leaving with GWR 2807 on a double-headed train roaring way from Market Bosworth, and I have it again on another double header with 6990 Witherslack Hall steaming (not so noisily) away from Loughborough on the non-stop run to Leicester North.
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