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'Winter Steam Gala 2022'
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The Great Central Railway Winter Steam Gala 29th January 2022
Loughborough
British Railways Standard Class 4 2-6-4T 80080 at at Loughborough station light engine during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022
This locomotive appeared courtesy of The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust.
British Railways Standard Class 4 2-6-4T 80080 in the GCR station at Loughborough
Battle of Britain Class 34072 257 Squadron waits at Loughborough station during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022
This locomotive appeared at the Gala courtesy of the Swanage Railway.
9F 92214 City of Leicester at Loughborough station during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022.
The new Flats behind the 9f dominate the station and were being built while the railway was closed for covid .
8F 2-8-0 48305 at Loughborough during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022
2-6-0 46521 at Loughborough station during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022
78018 into Loughborough station during the Winter Gala on the 29th January 2022
The boiler from Oliver Cromwell I think at Loughborough during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022
Black 5 4-6-0 45305 in the shed at Loughborough during the Winter Gala 29th January 2022.
It was noce to be back for a Winter Gala and the trains were full. The photos on this page do not show just how many people had turned up.
Most of the Heritage railways were closed for a lot of 2020.
The GCR Winter Gala in January 2020 was one of last of the very big GCR events of 2020. This was be for the March lock down due to covid. The 2021 Winter Gala was also in another lock down and that also did not happen.
Page updated 09/2/2021
