September Gala - videos

posted by keith vingoe on Wed, 01/09/2010 - 23:02

For those unable to be there, here are some video clips that capture some of the essence of the Gala Weekend - courtesy of YouTube.

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This just in from Trevor Garnham L&BR of Thames Valley Support Group - a taster of Gala Days Volume 3 which he hopes to have available for Christmas.

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Charles Mahoney of Launceston Steam Railway took this video of Lyd steaming towards Woody .

malcfrommarhamchurch posted this on YouTube.

Clive Roper posted this sequence of events.

Five videos courtesy of Trevor Garnham.

Lyd left the platform at Woody Bay on Sunday 25 September 2010 in a re-enactment of the "Last Train". The atmosphere was suitably sombre - a lone bugler played the "Last Post" as FR Carriage No14 departed slowly - seventy-five years after it had last left Woody Bay Station as SR 6993 (ex L&B No.15) as the last carriage of the "Last Train" on Sunday 29 September 1935 - its tail light disappearing into the enveloping darkness.

After the line closed 6993 was bought by a local farmer and kept on a short length of track near Snapper Halt for nearly a quarter of a century until purchased by the Ffestiniog Railway in 1959 who converted it into a bar and buffet car. Since when it has slaked the thirst of thousands of grateful travellers in the mountains of Snowdonia.

A remarkable survivor - FR Carriage 14, has - albeit briefly - at last returned to North Devon to carry delighted passengers once more on the railway for which it was built.

We applaud its return for this is surely proof enough that the L&B no longer sleeps.

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