UP to eight engines are set up run during the West Somerset Railway’s May 3-6 gala weekend.
Joining the previouslyannounced LNWR Webb coal tank No. 1054 and BR B1 No. is GWR 2800 heavy freight 2-8-0 No. 2807, courtesy of Cotswold Steam Preservation Ltd and the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Returned to service last September after a swift overhaul, it will be the 2-8-0’s first venture away from the Cotswolds under its new boiler ticket.