- An afternoon and early evening with B12 No.8572 and Gresley Teaks at the Severn Valley Railway, Monday 12th March 2018
An afternoon and early evening with B12 No.8572 and Gresley Teaks at the Severn Valley Railway, Monday 12th March 2018
An afternoon and early evening on the Severn Valley Railway with B12/3 No.8572 in LNER livery with the superb Gresley coaching stock photographing between Highley and Bewdley Tunnel with the loco facing South.
£65.00
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About this event
With grateful thanks to the Severn Valley Railway and the locomotive’s owners, the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society, we are delighted to offer an afternoon and early evening of photographing visiting B12/3 No.8572 on the line’s superb rake of varnished coaching stock. The locomotive currently carries London & North Eastern Railway apple green livery so is perfectly matched with the teak stock. Although one does not immediately associate the class with the Great Western, B12s worked ambulance trains onto the GWR system during the Second World War, so their appearance away from Eastern territory was not entirely unheard of during the 1940s.
The B12 class of locomotives was designed by Stephen Holden and built for the Great Eastern Railway, which became part of the LNER on grouping in 1923. Originally Class ‘S69’, the locos were reclassified as B12s by the LNER. No.8572 was one of ten later locomotives of this class and was built by Beyer Peacock of Manchester in 1928. The loco’s survival into preservation owes a lot to Bill Harvey, the former Norwich shedmaster, who ensured 8572 was kept in traffic until sufficient funds had been raised to purchase it; the loco was bought, along with ‘J15’ Class No.7564, in 1963 and arrived at the North Norfolk Railway in 1967; the B12/3 returned to steam after a lengthy restoration on 3rd March 1995 and is the only surviving inside cylindered 4-6-0 in Britain.
No.8572 will face South (chimney first towards Kidderminster) for our charter. We will start from Bewdley station just after mid-day running tender first to Highley and run round prior to working South again taking in some of the best locations available on that section of line in the afternoon. We will work as far South as the Safari Park and approach to Bewdley Tunnel on which section we hope there will be backlit, glint and silhouette shots to be found, weather permitting.
The daytime session will be followed by an after-dark shoot at Bewdley station. We appreciate that not everyone will wish to attend this event, so we will be offering this as a separate booking option to allow those who want to do either one session or the other to book accordingly; you are, of course, most welcome to book on both!
We hope you will wish to join us for our first
TimeLine Event at the Severn Valley Railway.
Daytime event cost £65.00 per person.
Images for illustrative purposes only, taken on a previous TLE Event at the North Norfolk Railway using the railways Quadart Teaks.