Steam Locomotives visiting the SVR for galas

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2017 Autumn Steam Gala guest GER 564 at Arley

This page gives details of steam locomotives that have visited the SVR for galas and other special events.

Locomotives are listed by their most recent BR number, followed by the number carried at the time of the visit (if different) shown in square brackets, for example 60103 Flying Scotsman [LNER 4472]. ( * indicates the loco was also on hire to the Severn Valley Railway at the time)

During the 1970s SVR ‘Enthusiast Days’ (the forerunner of of the modern gala events) were run using only the SVR’s own locomotives, many of which were appearing in steam for the first time. In the 1980s, visiting locomotives began to appear. SVR News did not always link them to specific galas or enthusiast events, merely observing that they visited for a short time.

1980-1989[edit | edit source]

1980[edit | edit source]

Autumn 1980

1982[edit | edit source]

June 1982 (including GWR Weekend)

  • 7029 Clun Castle: GWR Collett 4073 Castle class 4-6-0

1983[edit | edit source]

May 1983

  • 30777 Sir Lamiel [SR777]: SR Maunsell N15 King Arthur class
  • 92220 Evening Star: BR Riddles Standard 9F class 2-10-0

1984[edit | edit source]

September 1984

  • 5051 Drysllwyn Castle (later renamed Earl Bathurst): GWR Collett 4073 Castle class 4-6-0

1985[edit | edit source]

September 1985

  • 7029 Clun Castle: GWR Collett 4073 Castle class 4-6-0

1986[edit | edit source]

Summer 1986

  • 5051 Drysllwyn Castle (later renamed Earl Bathurst): GWR Collett 4073 Castle class 4-6-0
  • 6998 Burton Agnes Hall: GWR Hawksworth 6959 Modified Hall class 4-6-0

Autumn 1986

1987[edit | edit source]

Summer 1987

Autumn 1987

  • 53809: S&DJR Fowler 7F class 2-8-0 was booked as the guest engine for the Steam Gala, but did not arrive in time. However it worked services during the October Diesel Weekend.[1]

1988[edit | edit source]

March 1988

  • 5080 Defiant: GWR Collett 4073 Castle class 4-6-0 (for running in prior to main line working)
  • 45593 Kolhapur [LMS 5593]: LMS Stanier Jubilee 6P class 4-6-0 (for running in prior to main line working)

1990-1999[edit | edit source]

1990[edit | edit source]

Autumn 1990

1991[edit | edit source]

Autumn 1991

1992[edit | edit source]

Spring 1992

June 1992 (Thomas the Tank Engine weekend)

  • No 32 Gothenburg: Manchester Ship Canal Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T (works number 680/1903)

Autumn 1992

1993[edit | edit source]

Spring 1993

Summer 1993

Autumn 1993 (Silver Jubilee gala)

1994[edit | edit source]

Spring 1994

Autumn 1994

1995[edit | edit source]

Autumn 1995

1996[edit | edit source]

Spring 1996:

Autumn 1996:

  • 5029 Nunney Castle: GWR Collett 4073 Castle class 4-6-0
  • 6024 King Edward I: GWR Collett 4-6-0 King class

1997[edit | edit source]

Autumn 1997

1998[edit | edit source]

Spring 1998

Autumn 1998

1999[edit | edit source]

Spring 1999

July 1999

  • 45407: LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 (arrived with a rail tour, remained for several weeks)

Autumn 1999

2000-2009[edit | edit source]

2000[edit | edit source]

Spring 2000 (Branch Line Weekend)

May 2000 (30th Anniversary of opening)

(Autumn Gala cancelled due to 'boiler crisis'.)

October 2000 ('Thomas' event)

2001[edit | edit source]

Spring 2001 (Branch Line Weekend)

Autumn 2001

2002[edit | edit source]

Spring 2002 'Somerset & Dorset'

Autumn 2002

2003[edit | edit source]

Spring 2003 (Welsh Branch Line)

  • 426 [TVR 85]: Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T
  • 5637: GWR Collett 5600 class 0-6-2T

Autumn 2003

2004[edit | edit source]

Autumn 2004

  • 30926 Repton: SR Maunsell V Schools class 4-4-0
  • 30070 [DS 238][2]: Porter USA class 0-6-0T

(Locomotive was numbered DS238. SVR News states locomotive was 30065/DS238. KESR locos were 30065/DS237, which was not in steam at the time, and 30070/DS238.)

2005[edit | edit source]

Spring 2005 (Branch Line Gala)

Autumn 2005 (40th anniversary)

  • 1369: GWR Collett 1366 class 0-6-0PT
  • 1450: GWR Collett 1400 class 0-4-2T with Auto Coach 178
  • 6619: GWR Collett 5600 class 0-6-2T
  • 7903 Foremark Hall: GWR Hawksworth 6959 Modified Hall class 4-6-0
  • 9351: GWR-inspired WSR-realised 2-6-0 Mogul (rebuilt from Collett 5101 class 2-6-2T No 5193 by the West Somerset Railway)
  • 9466: BR(W) Hawksworth 9400 class 0-6-0PT

2006[edit | edit source]

Spring 2006

June 2006 (Big Engine Weekend):

Autumn 2006:

2007[edit | edit source]

Spring 2007

Autumn 2007

Line only open between Kidderminster and Bewdley due to the 2007 Storm Damage. 4936 and 4953 worked through services between Bewdley and Birmingham Snow Hill.

2008[edit | edit source]

Spring 2008 Reopening weekend post flood damage

June 2008 (Royal Train)

Autumn 2008

(6024 King Edward I was scheduled to appear but had failed on the main line the week before)

2009[edit | edit source]

Spring 2009

Autumn 2009

October 2009 ‘Mini gala’

2010-2019[edit | edit source]

2010[edit | edit source]

Spring 2010

Autumn 2010

2011[edit | edit source]

No Spring Gala took place in 2011 due to major engineering work at Arley and Bewdley South. A planned Easter visit by 60163 Tornado was also cancelled due to boiler issues.

May 2011 'Sounds of the 60s’

Autumn 2011

2012[edit | edit source]

Spring 2012

April/May 2012 'Thomas' weekends

May 2012 Victorian Locomotives weekend

  • No 20: Furness Railway Sharp Stewart 0-4-0 of 1863
  • No 3 Captain Baxter: Fletcher Jennings 0-4-0T of 1877
  • No 1 Coffee Pot: Head Wrightson 0-4-0VBT of 1871

Autumn 2012

2013[edit | edit source]

Spring 2013

Autumn 2013

2014[edit | edit source]

Spring 2014

Autumn 2014

2015[edit | edit source]

Spring 2015

Autumn 2015

October 2015

November 2015 'Manor 50'

  • 7820 Dinmore Manor: GWR Collett 7800 Manor Class 4-6-0

2016[edit | edit source]

Spring 2016

  • 6412: GWR Collett 6400 class 0-6-0PT
  • 6430: GWR Collett 6400 class 0-6-0PT
  • 6990 Witherslack Hall: GWR Hawksworth 6959 Modified Hall class 4-6-0 (did not run during the Spring Gala due to a hot box but worked service trains on the following 3 weekends)
  • No 4 Edward Thomas: Talyllyn Railway Kerr Stuart 2ft 3in gauge 0-4-2T locomotive (gave footplate rides in the Engine House car park)

September 2016 'Pacific Power' (replaced the traditional Autumn Steam Gala)

November 2016 'Season Finale Gala'

2017[edit | edit source]

Spring 2017

Autumn 2017

  • 30926 Repton [SR926]: SR Maunsell V Schools class 4-4-0
  • 65462 [GER 564]: GER Worsdell Y14 class 0-6-0
  • 31323 Bluebell [SR 323]: SECR Wainwright P class 0-6-0T
  • No. 2 Prince Festiniog Railway Small England class 0-4-0TT (George England works no 199/1863: 1ft 11½in gauge. Gave footplate rides in the Engine House car park)

2018[edit | edit source]

Spring 2018

Autumn 2018

2019[edit | edit source]

Spring 2019

Autumn 2019

November 2019 'Tornado returns'

2020-present[edit | edit source]

2020[edit | edit source]

No galas took place due to the 2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

2021[edit | edit source]

Spring 2021

Autumn 2021

2022[edit | edit source]

Spring 2022

Autumn 2022

  • 45231 The Sherwood Forester: LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0
  • 9351: GWR-inspired WSR-realised 2-6-0 Mogul (rebuilt from Collett 5101 class 2-6-2T No 5193 by the West Somerset Railway)
  • Works no. 1873 Jessie: Hunslet 0-6-0ST of 1937
  • Works no. 323 Anne: Exmoor Steam Railway 0-6-2T (15 inch gauge) of 2004

2023[edit | edit source]

Spring 2023

Autumn 2023

  • 401 Vulcan: Bagnall 0-6-0ST of 1951
  • 2253 Omaha: USATC Hill S160 class 2-8-0
  • 41312: LMS Ivatt 2MT Prairie
  • 61306 Mayflower: LNER Thompson B1 class 4-6-0

2024[edit | edit source]

Winter 2024

  • Home locomotives only. Advertised visitor 2253 Omaha was withdrawn from the line up before the event.

Spring 2024

  • 29: Lambton Collieries 0-6-2T of 1904
  • 32636 Fenchurch [LBSCR 72]: LBSCR Stroudley A1X Terrier class 0-6-0T
  • 1369: GWR Collett 1366 class 0-6-0PT
  • 60532 Blue Peter: LNER Peppercorn A2 Pacific (on static display at Kidderminster)

Autumn 2024

2025[edit | edit source]

Winter 2025

  • Home locomotives only. Debut gala appearance of 1450 following completion of overhaul.

Spring 2025

  • 6880 Betton Grange : Re-constructed GWR Collett 6800 Grange class 4-6-0 (First visit to SVR)
  • 45596 Bahamas : LMS Stanier Jubilee 6P class 4-6-0
  • 45699 Galatea: LMS Stanier Jubilee 6P class 4-6-0 (running as 45627 Sierra Leone & first operating appearance at the SVR. The engine last being on the SVR from 1987 to 1994 in Ex-Barry Scrapyard condition)

July 2025 Railway 200: Trains Through the Ages

  • 46115 Scots Guardsman : LMS Stanier Royal Scot 7P Class 4-6-0

Autumn 2025

  • TBC

See also[edit | edit source]

Current steam locomotives
Steam Locomotives hired by the SVR

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ SVR News 86, cover photo by David Williams
  2. ↑ KESR web site

Great Eastern Railway

Severn Valley Railway

British Rail or British Railways

London & North Eastern Railway

London Midland & Scottish Railway

William Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944

Great Western Railway

Charles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941

Southern Railway

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913-1923, and of the Southern Railway 1923-1937.

Robert Arthur "Robin" Riddles, Member of the Railway Executive for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering responsible for the design of the British Rail Standard Class locomotives

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Frederick Hawksworth, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1941-1948

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

London & North Western Railway

Francis Webb, Locomotive Superintendant/Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Western Railway 1871-1903

Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, jointly operated by the London and South Western and Midland Railways (later Southern and London Midland and Scottish Railways)

Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway 1909-1923, and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1923-1933

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Sir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London & North Eastern Railway 1923-1941

Locomotive with a 4-6-2 wheel configuration

George Jackson Churchward, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1902-1922

Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway 1937-1948

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Alfred John Hill, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Eastern Railway 1912-1922

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Locomotive with a 2-6-0 wheel configuration

Stephen Dewar Holden, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Eastern Railway 1908-1912

Henry George Ivatt, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1946-1948. CME of BR (London Midland Region) 1948-1951

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Locomotive with a 2-6-2 wheel configuration

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

London Brighton & South Coast Railway

William Stroudley, locomotive superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1870-1889

Lawson Billinton, Locomotive Engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1912-1923

Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Western Railway 1920-1922.

An LNWR 0-8-0 goods engine

A GWR 9000 Class 4-4-0 engine, rebuilt using earlier 3300 Class 'Bulldog' frame and 3252 Class 'Duke' boiler.

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Great Northern Railway

John Farquharson McIntosh, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Caledonian Railway 1895-1914

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

Thomas William Worsdell, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Eastern Railway 1881-1885 and North Eastern Railway 1885-1890

London & South Western Railway

Dugald Drummond, Locomotive Engineer, later Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London & South Western Railway 1895-1905

T. F. Clark, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Metropolitan Railway

The British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic.

South Eastern and Chatham Railway

Harry Smith Wainwright, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway 1899-1913

Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the North Eastern Railway 1910-1922

North Eastern Railway

Robert Urie, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and South Western Railway 1912-1922

United States Army Transportation Corps

Woodham Brothers Scrapyard, Barry, South Wales. The source of many locomotives now in preservation.

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