Hi all,

45699 “Galatea” in disguise as 45627 “Sierra Leone” leaving Bewdley this year during the Spring Gala on the Severn Valley Railway. The dreadful yellow stripe on the cab side indicated that the engine was banned from working south of Crewe once the electric was turned on for the overhead wires in the 1960s. (The powers that be just didn’t want passenger engines getting their new wires dirtied up!) because they go up and down willy nilly south thereof now and as far as I know every thing is still the same.

They were a sight to behold seeing them working the Bristol York expresses before the coming of the Diesels, Galatea being one of the Bristol allocation so it was a regular sight passing through Bromford Bridge.

19th April 2025.

Regards Ledg.