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MAIN LINE STEAM DIARY  Mid June 2017 to Mid Aug 2017

5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe  Shakespeare Expresses   35018  British India Line  on test run on Hellifield Circuit –  35028 Clan Line  on test run, Bournemouth Belle, Circular runs on Surrey Hill Circuit   34046  Braunton  as 34052 Lord Dowding on End of Southern Steam and Surrey Hills specials 45690   Leander  Dalesman over S & C , Cumbrian Mountain Express over Shap, North Wales Coast Express  with scenes along coast and on Anglesey –  45699   Galatea   Scarborough Spa Express –  46100   Royal Scot  on Surrey Hills circuit –   46115   Scots Guardsman  Dalesmans and Welsh Mountaineer with scenes on the steep grades to Blaenau –    n46233   Duchess of Sutherland   The Whistling Ghost, Scarborough Flyer and Cumbria Mountain Express – 8F 48151   on Settle and Carlisle –   60009 Union of South Africa   on Cathedrals Expresses to Yeovil and Weymouth & Dorset Coast Express on Upwey and Parkstone Banks –   60103 Flying Scotsman    on East Coast Main Line with Scarborough Flyer, The Yorkshireman, The Waverley and The Hadrian –   60163 Tornado   VSOE Luncheon Circuit, the Torbay Express and the Towi Tornado to South Wales with scenes along the coast to Carmarthen, at Cardiff, departing Bristol and on Stormy Bank.

NEWS AND EVENTS   Bodmin and Wenford Railway – Gwili Railway Extension, Keighley & Worth Valley Little Engines Gala – Spa Valley Steam – Joem on Wensleydale Railway – Midland Railway Centre – Tyseley Open Weekend and 70013 Oliver Cromwell on the Great Central.

West Coast Duchess   46233 Duchess of Hamilton on the climb to Shap.

Steam Galas   60009 Union of South Africa on the Mid Norfolk Railway and the Foxfield Railways 50th Anniversary Gala with a wide range of steam power hauling freight on the grade.

Waterloo Sunrise   The events of the summer of 2017 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of steam on the Southern Region. Includes steam at Waterloo in the 1960s and Clan Line in 2017 on The Bournemouth Belle. Archive film from the 1960s at Nine Elms, Vauxhall and Clapham Junction contrasts with the specials of July 2017 with 34046 Braunton and 35028 Clan Line in action on the Weymouth and Salisbury lines.  In addition the galas on the Mid Hants Railway and Bluebell are featured with a wide range of motive power including Standard as well as Southern classes on freight as well as passenger duties.

Flying Scotsman in the North   Action from the Waverley & Hadrian specials over the Settle and Carlisle including the climb to Ais Gill.