Severn Valley Railway - Spring Diesel Festival 2024

From Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th May 2024, the Severn Valley Railway held their annual Spring Diesel Festival event, which had the usual mix of traction both heritage and modern. The event had something for everyone, quite a lineup.
This video was filmed on both the Saturday and Sunday of the event, most of the filming was done on Saturday and filmed at Kidderminster, whilst a few bits and bobs were filmed on the Sunday of the event.
Locomotives featured:
- BR Class 46 Peak no. 46045
- BR Class 50 Hoover no. 50007 'Hercules'
- BR Class 52 Western no. D1015 'Western Champion'
- Freightliner Class 59 no. 59026 'John F Yeoman' (courtesy of Freightliner)
- BR Class 37 Tractor no. 37263 (courtesy of Telford Steam Railway)
- BR Class 40 Whistler no. 40106 'Atlantic Conveyor'
- GBRf Class 69 no. 69009 'Western Consort' (courtesy of GB Railfreight)
- BR Class 50 Hoover no. 50035 'Ark Royal'
- BR Class 20 Chopper no. 20189 (courtesy of Class 20189 Ltd)
- BR Class 20 Chopper no. 20142 ( courtesy of Class 20189 Ltd)
- Freightliner Class 70 no. 70005 (courtesy of Freightliner)
- BR Class 52 Western no. D1062 'Western Courier'
- BR Class 37 Tractor no. 37409 'Loch Awe' (courtesy of LSG)
- BR Class 20 Chopper no. 20048 (courtesy of Midland Railway Butterley)
- BR Class 33 Crompton no. 33108
- BR Class 73 Shoebox no. 73119 'Paul Taylor' (courtesy of GB Railfreight)
- Rail Adventure Class43 HST Power Cars nos. 43480 & 43468 (courtesy of Hanson + Hall/Rail Adventure)
- BR Class 17 Clayton no. D5868
- Colas Rail HST nos. 43301 and 43303 (courtesy of Colas Rail)
A big thank you and well done for hosting a cracking gala event, I as always look forward to the next one.
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[@davidstrains4910]

First of all hope you had an excellent time here Peter, while I wasn’t there most interesting was the 70, remember seeing posts of it advertised and wondering how they would get round to making it able to haul passenger stock, seen a couple of videos of when they have occasionally hauled passenger trains but in order to do it they have had to have another loco in between the 70 and the coaches, it’s normally a 66 from what I have seen they can’t be directly coupled up to passenger stock but haven’t really heard of a definite reason, every time I have seen, as I say nope you had a fantastic time there peter, great variety of locos and videos.

[@class47peter]

Cheers David, glad you enjoyed. Was a fantastic event
The 70s can't couple up to coaching stock as apparently its to do with the light clusters interfering with the corridir gangways from what I've heard