GCR Goods Gala - Cromwell and the Crane

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Francis Devereaux

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The Great Central Railway ran a three-day "Goods Gala" over the weekend of Friday 11th May to Sunday 13th May 2018 during which five varieties of goods or freight trains were run behind steam (and even one diesel!) locomotives. On the final day one of the highlights was the use of the BR "Britannia" Pacific no 70013 "Oliver Cromwell" on an engineers' train complete with the very recently reinstated breakdown crane, now sorting the yellow engineers' livery. The train is seen at Kinchley Lane.

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