A few gala snaps

 I think Dave's combining a gala post with tomorrow's activities, so I'll just sneak in here with a few pictures I managed to take while on duty in what was an extraordinarily hectic weekend:

With my gala committee hat on I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone in C&W who made it possible, from opening the works on the day, being able to field 3 coaching sets and of course our goods train, which garnered a huge number of compliments over the weekend and really made the event. From an operations point of view it couldn't really have been a more challenging weekend, but we all got through it, passengers seemed to enjoy themselves, and hopefully all the volunteers did too - that is after all what it's all about! No indications of numbers yet, I was too shattered to enquire at booking offices Sunday evening, but we should have returned a tidy sum for the railway at the end of the season to help us through the winter.