1. BR green 7802 Bradley Manor with small tender five carmine and cream coaches at the SVR, Monday 23rd April 2018
Bewdley, Worcestershire

BR green 7802 Bradley Manor with small tender five carmine and cream coaches at the SVR, Monday 23rd April 2018

A full day’s photography on the Severn Valley Railway recreating a classic Western Region combination of No.7802 Bradley Manor hauling a rake of 5 carmine and cream Mark I coaches.

£70.00

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With grateful thanks to the Severn Valley Railway and the locomotive’s owners, The Erlestoke Manor Fund, we are delighted to be able to offer a charter featuring No.7802 Bradley Manor paired with a small tender and heading a short rake of stock comprising a five coach carmine and cream-liveried Mark I rake. 

Our charter will see 7802 facing North in the morning and South in the afternoon. Starting at Bewdley around 07.30 we will be visiting a number of location close to Bewdley to ensure we take full advantage of the early morning light. After our morning session we have an extended lunch break at Bewdley where the cafe will open for us. . After the break we will work north to Bridgnorth to run round and work our way back south, again visiting as many of the favourite locations this iconic preserved railway has to offer. We expect to return to Bewdley early evening.

The locomotive carries lined green British Railways livery. Up until now, No.7802 has been running with a larger 4000-gallon tender rather than the smaller 3500-gallon tender that were more typical for the class. Now that sister locomotive Erlestoke Manor (7812) has departed for Tyseley Locomotive Works for overhaul, the opportunity has been taken to repaint and pair the tender that usually runs with No.7812 with No.7802. So, for the first time for some years it is possible to run 7802 with a 3500-gallon tender – as Churchward intended! A new permanent ‘bespoke’ tender is currently being constructed for Bradley Manor. 

Thirty Manor Class locos were built, twenty before the Second World War and a further ten in 1950. Bradley Manor was built at Swindon in 1938 and allocated from new to Old Oak Common, then to Bristol. The locomotive went to Machynlleth in 1946 and it worked the Cambrian routes of the GWR and then Western Region until its final shed allocation to Shrewsbury, from where it was withdrawn in November 1965. Along with classmate 7812, 7802 was rescued from Woodham Brothers scrap yard at Barry in South Wales by The Erlestoke Manor Fund and both engines now reside at the Severn Valley Railway.  

The Severn Valley Railway remains one of the most picturesque heritage railways in the United Kingdom and we are very pleased to have the opportunity of running a further charter on the line, so why not join us for a day photographing a classic Western Region combination on the 16-mile long Severn Valley Railway. 

Event cost £70.00 per person.

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