The Severn Valley Railway has announced that Austerity 0-6-0 71516 Welsh Guardsman will be in action at the Severn Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala.
The Spring Steam Gala will take place between the 21st and 24th April 2022 and will see a number of locomotives in action throughout the weekend, including special visitors, which are yet to be announced.
71516 has been visiting the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway but has now returned to the Kidderminster-based railway.
This is the first Austerity 0-6-0 to run on the Severn Valley Railway since 1981.
More announcements on the Spring Steam Gala will be made in the run up to the big event.
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UKR is running an excursion to the SVR gala on 23 April but the starting time is really a little too early for some of us from South of the Thames. I am hoping that the start time will be tweaked so as to become (say) 25 minutes earlier as one would love to be on that excursion.