3417 ‘Gordon Pettitt’ at Swanage
This weekend the Bluebell-owned 4VEP unit has been operated at the Swanage Railway’s Diesel Gala and Beer Festival. On the preview day, on the Thursday, it was used to good advantage in Pull-Push mode on alternate services with Class 73 73128 ‘Kent & East Sussex Railway’ and as hauled stock behind Class 47, 47715 ‘Rail Engineering Solutions’, with the other train hauled by Bulleid Pacific 34072 ‘257 Squadron’.
This video of the preview day is available from Chailey Stowe,
Other videos from the Gala are available from:
Donations towards the development and maintenance of the VEP unit can be made via The Bluebell Railway Trust – Choose “Other Funds” and write 4VEP in the Message box.
You can see the unit again this year at the Railway200 “Greatest Gathering” in Derby, and the Bluebell Diesel Gala, 5-7 September.
The VEP is in the care of SETG, and you can follow all the latest news and action via their social media, on YouTube, on Facebook, on TikTok, on Instagram, on X/Twitter and on BlueSky.
More of ‘Fenchurch’ at the WSR Spring Steam Spectacular a week back
The photos here are from Ashley Smith’s Flickr gallery, and in addition ‘Fenchurch’ features strongly in Ashley’s Video.
