Kidderminster

I took this picture at Kidderminster of Great Western 4-6-0 7802 “Bradley Manor” during our last very heavy snow fall in the Midlands during December 2010. The Santa Specials on the Severn Valley railway valiantly continued to run but not many of those that had booked were able to turn up. Tomorrow is the same date as five years ago and the temperature is expected to be 12.C, not much prospect of snow then. We only got there with our

I stayed on late in the evening at Kidderminster after a long sunny day photographing on the SVR to see 34007 Wadebridge come in on the last train from Bridgnorth and shunt the stock. 34007 was soon to go back home after a spell on lone to the Severn Valley Railway in April 2013. By this time everyone else had gone but as luck has it 5 hot air balloons passed over the area at the time and I managed