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The first steam train of the 2024 season arriving at Chasewater Heaths Station, I had a round trip too.

The Museum was open for 12 days during March, welcoming 779 visitors, the best March figure since 2019, helped, of course, by the Easter break.

Finally, for this post, a collection of photos from Ken Bull

Kitson loco at the bottom of the garden

No. 44512 – crew taking a break!

Ex South Devon Railway B/G 2-4-0T Prince as converted to a standard gauge engine No.1316 in 1893 and put to stationery use in 1896. Leslie Good Collection.

Home Counties Railway Society Special, St. Pancras to Derby. 35003 ‘Royal Mail’ Sunday 1st March 1964. Cattle Market Sidings, Leicester. Horace A Gamble

‘The Colonel’ at Fair Lady Sidings, Heath Hayes. Circa 1962

42470 2-6-4 T at Brownhills Station. (The line swinging left through the bridge went down to the canal basins, to the right, to the carriage sidings.)

49308 G-2 0-8-0 3A Bescot at Brownhills Station on freight

Two Class 20s – 20190 and 20188 pass Anglesea Sidings signal box on the Walsall to Wychnor Junc. Freight only line with a Bescot/Toton freight 4-12-88.

More to follow when I get my breath back!