Steam @ Ropley. MHR steam gala. October 2024.

Mid Hants Railway (MHR) steam gala weekend in October 2024. Filmed at Ropley & Alresford stations. The MHR line is sometimes called The Hampshire Alps and also the Watercress Line.
Don't miss Thomas the Tank 1:46
Engines included:
Steam 6695
6695 was completed at Armstrong Whitworth’s Newcastle works in October 1928 and was given works number 983. 6695 was originally deployed to Tyseley and then in April 1929 to Leamington hauling outer suburban passenger services In September 1934, 6695 was transferred to freight work at Oxley near Wolverhampton and then to Wolverhampton Stafford Road in February 1938 but returned to Oxley in January 1939.
Steam 34072 "257 Squadron"
257 Squadron was built at Brighton Works and completed in 1948 as one of the first of the batch produced under BR ownership. The locomotive was allocated to Dover Marine shed, principally to work the Continental Boat Trains to London. One of its main duties appears to have been the Night Ferry. It also worked on local services between the Kent Coast and Charing Cross and on one occasion it worked over the Tonbridge to Redhill line, believed to have been a first for a Bulleid light Pacific.
Steam 3781
This locomotive was built in 1952 for the National Coal Board (NCB) by the Hunslet Engine Company to the design used to supply to the Ministry of Defence and is thus regarded as an Austerity type locomotive. It sometimes performs as "Thomas the Tank"