We enjoyed it so much that when we heard about the Severn Valley Railway's Autumn Gala we couldn't resist and so Friday 25th September 2009 saw us travelling south to Bridgnorth.
What a fantastic day! Neil and I know very little about steam trains but you don't have to just to soak up the atmosphere when being close to and travelling on these magnificent locomotives. The sights, sounds and smells really stir the imagination and when these huge noisy beasts pulls into a station, you almost believe you can hear Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in one of their scenes from "Brief Encounter". It is so evocative of a bygone age.
Anyway, enough of the romanticism, here are a few photographs I took on the day.
Locomotives in the sidings at Brignorth Station
A locomotive enters Highley Station
And the same locomotive steams out of Highley Station
Another locomotive enters Bewdley Station
