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General Category => Chatterbox => Topic started by: mikemill on April 05, 2019, 02:18:34 PM

Title: Saint's Alive
Post by: mikemill on April 05, 2019, 02:18:34 PM

Just spent the morning at the Didcot Railway Centre home of the Great Western Society, they have recreated a GWR Saint class loco from a Hall class.
This exercise has taken twenty-four years from inception to today’s triumph and cost close to a million pounds, the engine had its first public run with a train of Edwardian coaches freshly painted and lined for the occasion, it was a wonderful sight of an age of elegance. Here a short video of the occasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5cX7SSVNE

Mike

Title: Re: Saint's Alive
Post by: b.lindsey on April 05, 2019, 02:37:05 PM

Those coaches are as beautiful as the engine Mike. Obviously the event raised a lot of excitement judging by the number of spectators. Thanks for posting the video!!

Bill

Title: Re: Saint's Alive
Post by: Johnmcc69 on April 05, 2019, 05:25:59 PM

 :praise2: :praise2: :praise2:

 WOW!!! Hats off to all the people involved in making that happen!!

 Look at all that beautiful steam! All of it quite incredible!

 John