Class 20s reunited at Mid Hants

THE TWO Class 20s belonging to the Somerset & Dorset Locomotive Company, D8059 and D8188, have been reunited at the Mid Hants Railway after D8188 arrived on the line following a spell operating on the Spa Valley Railway

The immaculate pair, painted in matching BR green livery with small yellow warning panels, worked services on the MHR between Alresford and Alton on September 11. Prior to their first operating day, trials of the locomotives saw them coupled up in multiple at Ropley on August 19.

The arrival of D8188 reunites the pair which spent several years based on the Severn Valley Railway before moving on a couple of years ago.

Pictured on their first day in service together on the Mid Hants Railway, D8188 and D8059 stand at Alresford on September 11, prior to working the 13.10 service to Alton. Jeremy de Souza

LEFT: The two visiting locomotives brought in for the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s Mixed Traffic Weekend from September 10-12 were a pair of Sulzer Type Two locomotives, with privately-owned 26007 attending from Barrow Hill and the Class 27 Locomotive Group’s Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway-based 27001. The two visitors stand at Keighley station on September 10, 2021. Chris Gee