Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023: Video

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Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023 part 5: Miscellany

 
Pilot Scheme D5302 (26002), delivered to BR from BRCW in October 1958, was outdoors for viewing at Boat of Garten.


26002 + 26025 were both withdrawn in October 1992.


26025 (D5325)  from the production batch, was new to BR at Haymarket in May 1959. 


46512 (BR Swindon, December 1952) entering the yard at Boat of Garten.

D3605 (08490), new from BR Horwich, November 1958) shunting at Boat of Garten. 

E1719E is a LNER observation coach, delivered as a 'Beavertail' for the 'Coronation' express of 1937, and modified for Scottish Region usage in the 1950s. After a while on the Lochty Railway, it migrated to the Great Central Railway, and is on a multi-year hire to the Strathspey.

4477 (centre in picture) is a Mk 1 SO (2 + 1 seating), which was new from BRCW in June 1957, and moved to the Strathspey in 1986.

Fantastic scenery at Boat of Garten - change for Speyside Line.

Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023 part 4: 5025

My personal journey with 5025 goes back to a second visit to Boat of Garten, in 1974, when I learned of the locomotives planned to work at the Strathspey. In 1982, I was on a railtour from Perth to the Strathspey and back, with 5025 in both directions, turned at the turntables in Perth (sadly now gone) and Aviemore. After that I saw the locomotive in storage on a mid-1990s visit. The attraction of the 2023 visit becoming a mixed-traffic gala was to reacquaint myself with the locomotive after its 1935 look restoration, which looks fantastic.

Backing down into the station from the shed at Aviemore.

5025 + 46512 wait to depart with 2H15 13:00 Aviemore - Broomhill.

Two evening shots of 5025 upon arrival at Boat of Garten with 7B27 17:40 freight from Aviemore.

Good Friday, and relatively few present for appreciation.

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Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023 part 3: 27050

When new, this locomotive was numbered D5394, delivered from BRCW on 20th June 1962 to Cricklewood. It migrated to the Scottish Region in 1968, and was later assigned to the intensive Edinburgh - Glasgow push-pull service as 27106, retaining its boiler, and where I first saw it in the 1970s. After the 47/7's arrived, it became 27050 in 1982 after an Intermediate General Repair, and was withdrawn in July 1987, in the mass withdrawal, after which it entered preservation in 1988. It has spent more time at Strathspey than in BR service!

D5394 ready to depart with 2H11 12:00 Aviemore - Broomhill.

Two pictures of the locomotive returning as 2H11 12:00 Aviemore - Broomhill.

Arriving at Boat of Garten with 2H25 17:00 Aviemore - Broomhill.

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Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023 part 2: 31327

"D5862 entered service with British Railways in October 1962. It was renumbered into the TOPS series as 31327 in February 1974 and carried the name Phillips Imperial from May 1987 until January 1990. It was withdrawn in December 1995 and subsequently preserved." (source) The last numbered in its class, the loco was sold in September 2001, and arrived at Bo'ness, from Carlisle, in November 2001, where it received repairs to run in 2002. 

31327 arrives at Boat of Garten with 2H05 10:00 Aviemore - Broomhill.


31327 at Aviemore after arrival with 2H05 10:50 Broomhill - Aviemore.


Running back to Aviemore Shed.

31327 preparing to depart with 2H17 14:00 Aviemore - Broomhill.

Passing Boat of Garten North signal box with 31327 2H18 14:50 Broomhill - Aviemore.

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Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023 part 1: 37674

37674 was new as D6869 on 23rd August 1963 from English Electric Vulcan Foundry, and was first allocated to Landore. It was renumbered to 37169 in May 1974, later went through a Heavy General Repair to become 37674 in June 1987. Stored at Motherwell in December 2004, and sold in 2007, after which it was moved to Kirkby Stephen East, then to the Wensleydale Railway in 2014, where it was returned to operational status. In December 2020 it moved on, eventually arriving at Strathspey in November 2021.

37674 arrives at Aviemore, passing the former Speyside station, with 4B08 11:30 Boat of Garten - Aviemore.


The train was formed of a set of ZCA wagons, delivered to the Strathspey in late 1922.


37674 on the run-around.


A departure as 4B13 12:40 Aviemore - Boat of Garten. While no longer used for signalling, Network Rail continues to use the Aviemore signal box, which is a listed building.


On a shunt manoeuvre at Boat of Garten, to lay over at the former GNoSR shed location, which closed in 1958.


Arrival at Boat of Garten with 2H24 16:50 Broomhill - Aviemore.

Waiting at Boat for the train from Aviemore.

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