Event Recap: Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 60th Anniversary Gala - 'It's Still A Lot Of Fun'

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 Event Recap: 

Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway 60th Anniversary Gala - 'It's Still A Lot Of Fun'

Over the weekend on the 10/11 of July the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway held a gala to celebrate 60 years of the railway's preservation society. The gala featured a number of trains hauled by locos that don't normally work passenger trains. Such as Katie from the railway museum and Lister "Cyril" 

"Katie" climbing Hollin How bank with a train for Dalegarth. Katie is normally displayed inside the railways Museum at Ravenglass.

"Perkins" and a short train bound for Dalegarth entering Gilbert's Cutting.

Recently overhauled "Black Prince" on display at Ravenglass. "Black Prince" is normally based on the romney hythe and dymchurch railway but has been overhauled at the nearby Old Hall Farm, Bouth.

Fowler Road Locomotive 16263, "Talisman"

A few minimum gauge steam locomotives were on display near the Museum at Ravenglass.

Lister "Cyril" making a very rare appearnce on a passanger train can be seen passing through Beckfoot with a train for Dalegarth

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