Diesel Galas of 2013
Railways • Documentary, Special Interest
A review of the diesel galas held at the Mid-Hants Railway and Swanage Railway in the spring of 2013. Includes considerable footage of all the locomotives at work and also the convoys of engines being positioned from Network Rail. Features footage of the Mid-Norfolk Gala and the unique one held at the Didcot base of the Great Western Society.
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