Manx Transport Festival offers something special

WITH ITS traditional Easter and summer transport festivals being cancelled due to Covid, a special fiveday Winter Manx Heritage Transport Festival takes place on October 27-31. Offering a very different experience, it includes dusk and after dark steam trains and trams plus a host of special photographic opportunities and unusual rides, including parallel running with trams.

It will also see the debut of No. 4 Loch, after a six year overhaul. Its boiler was repaired at the Severn Valley Railway and it is the first loco in the fleet to carry Salter safety valves on its large brass dome for over 60 years.

The event also includes workshop, signalbox and shed tours (normally closed to the public), photography specials, bus tours, social evenings, enhanced timetables and ‘unusual combinations’.

Details available at www.rail.im

Locomotive Services Ltd 46100 Royal Scot steams south beneath the wires at Cheddington, heading with its support coach to Southall on a hot and sunny September 7, 2021. The locomotive was moving south from Crewe in preparation for working the following day's Saphos Trains charter from London Paddington to Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway. Noel Slack