LOOSE-COUPLED freight charters have finally returned to the Severn Valley Railway after an absence of several years. There are now completely different rules for holding these photographic charters, but the door is open again.
On September 25, SVR flagship GWR 4-6-0 No. 4930 Hagley Hall was appropriately matched with a genuine set of GW wagons from the line’s collection, although one ‘foreigner’ crept in from the South Eastern & Chatham Railway to add to the length.
Great attention was paid to the wagons and the way the consist looked by Matt Fielding,