DALES TRACTOR: No. 37294 heads away from Stoneacre loop, Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway, on May 7, with a mid-afternoon service from Bolton Abbey to Bow Bridge during the line’s Spring Mixed Traction Gala, held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of trains running to Bolton Abbey.
STEVE SIENKIEWICZ
OLD AND NEW GWR: One of the many visitors to the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Diesel Gala on May 18-21 was a GWR ‘Castle Class’ HST set (with power cars Nos. 43186/43188), seen at Arley on May 19, with the 10.00 from Kidderminster. Other visiting locos included Nos. 20048, 20189, 31270, 37263, 43465/43484, 47712, 56051, 57307, 60062, and 88004.
STEVE WIDDOWSON
SPRING IRIS: Newly arrived at the Plym Valley Railway from the Barry Tourist Railway is former departmental Class 101 DMU Iris II/Lab 19 (Nos. 50222+50338), seen departing Marsh Mills amongst the bluebells with a crew training run on May 12.
BERNARD MILLS