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Exhibition Report

Severn Valley Railway
Steam Gala 2004
What an absolutely cracking weekend we had at the Severn Valley Railway Steam Gala. We arrived on the Friday morning shortly followed by Laurie (Lad491). After a brief delay whilst the room was opened up, we setup the demonstration stand and were running by 9.00am.
We were in the Bewdley Buffet until 5.30pm on the Friday; 8.30am til 5.00pm on the Saturday and 8.30am til 4.30pm on the Sunday.

Lad491 and Leviathan1949 limber up. Doug Kightley. Lad491 and Alan Salmon. Alan Howat and Alan Salmon. Hymek and Doug Kightley.

What made the whole weekend more special was the large number of UKTS users that turned up and either joined us to demonstrate or just for a chat. I doubt for one moment that I got everbodies names but this is the list I compiled over the three days.

Pat Dalton, John Yelland, Easilyconfused who sat and demonstrated for most of Friday, Lad491 who sat and demonstrated with us for the whole three days, Alan Howat who joined us Friday afternoon thru Saturday as a demonstrator, Mike Hambly, Tim Ingman, Alan Salmon who demonstrated throughout his visit on the Saturday, Doug Kightley, anonimizeruk, Saddletank and LMS who joined us to demonstrate between train rides, Hymek, Miller2002, Wookey, Fodda and Mrs F., Baily9531 (thanks for offer of sound files) his wife and the new baby Oliver, Terry Thornton, Matt Carey, Steamnut44 who brought along some CD's of the Fleetwood updated Blackpool Tramway (They didn't last long), amigaairwolf, Alan Heath, Nitasim, Terri Cunliffe who demonstrated with us for a period, Chalkster, 250787, King125 (straight from night shift), EddieF, DavidaWard, BruceB and Richsoft.

Thanks for joining us, it was great to see you all.

60009 in steam. 60009 pulling the LNER teak rake tender first. The Royal Mail coach at Highley. Highley Signal Box.

After two visits last year for the Steam and Diesel Galas, Cab-It was determined on this occasion to ride the trains. As Friday was going to be the quiet day, around 10.30 she tootled off behind 60009 up to Bridgenorth and finally returned around 1.30. Later in the afternoon to she tootled off to Kidderminster. ALL the photographs were taken by her on her travels.

D444 and D821 at Kidderminster. Prairie at Kidderminster. Refreshment Kiosk at Kidderminster. Kidderminster Station.

GWR Fruit Van. Rake of GWR freight wagons. Pannier tank. Large sheds at Kidderminster.

All the freeware routes received a showing over the weekend, a couple of Stateside routes and a couple of commercial ones. With Alan Salmon and Lad491 present the new West Coastway was given a good showing including the location where Lad491 works and sits having his lunch (TeeHee). We'll have to get Alan to make a model of Lad491 in his car eating his sandwiches using freightanim and set it down trackside..

Steamnut44. Neutronic and Amigaairwolf. Terry Thornton (Duckweed) and his dad. Chalkster, Terry Cunliffe, Fodda, Mrs F and Neutronic with Lad491 and Duckweed in the background.

King125 and Mike Hambly (BlueArrow). Richsoft and BruceB. Pannier and USA Tanks. Off the Victoria Bridge.

Our thanks to all the UKTS members who turned out over the weekend to drop in and see us. Thanks to Mike Hambly for organising the attendance and location of UKTS and thanks to the Severn Valley Railway for providing the Buffet / Training Room for the UKTS Demonstration Team. We hope to return in September 2005.