Tyseley Open Day - 24/10/10 - Featuring 4003 'Lode Star' - Part 1

The Tyseley Locomotive Works held their open day on Sunday 24th October. The event featured many things such as passenger rides on the demonstration line, turntable demonstrations and locomotive cavalcades. The "Star" attraction however was the rare outside appearance of GWR Star Class 4-6-0 no.4003 'Lode Star', visiting from the National Railway Museum in York and on her way to Swindon where she will be placed on display in 'STEAM' museum. The was also to be the first time a 'Star' had been at Tyseley since the 1950s.
Other locomotives featured in the event include:
- ex-GWR 4900 Class 'Hall' 4-6-0 no.4965 'Rood Ashton Hall'
- ex-GWR 4073 Class 'Castle' 4-6-0 no. 5043 'Earl Of Mount Edgcumbe'
- ex-GWR 4073 Class 'Castle' 4-6-0 no.5029 'Nunney Castle'
- ex-GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT no.9600
- ex-LMS Black 5 4-6-0 no.45305 'Alderman A E Draper'
- ex-LMS Princess Royal Class 4-6-2 no.6201 'Princess Elizabeth' (Not in steam)
- Peckett & Sons 0-4-0ST no.2004 'Percy'
- BR Class 47 no.47773
- BR Class 86 AC Electric no.86259 'Les Ross'
- BR(W) Class 52 'Western' no.D1015 'Western Champion' (Running on one engine)
Filmed on a Panasonic HS60 HD Camcorder
Enjoy

[@MG06ZT]

Good vid, some nice shots. Especially early on with the poor light. You only managed to get my back in one shot! Nice shot of the incinerator chimney!!

[@ciphowler8370]

Lode Star definitely needs to be restored to running condition.

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@MG06ZT cheers mate, seems like there were quite a few fellow youtubers there =) The sun did seem to play havoc on my autofocus during the turntable shot, which meant I had to cut bits out, ah well, can never have everything lol

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@EMuksteam thanks mate. Yeah it did draw quite the crowd

[@BritishLocoFilms]

Brillant Part 1 Mate

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@84asrd84boxy thank you Bill =) And thanks for subscribing too =)

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@BristolCastle cheers mate. Part 2 should be done uploading soon, then comes the long processing..er, process =)

[@gm66power]

nice filming

[@84asrd84boxy]

Superb video 5*

[@EMuksteam]

nice video looklike it was well supported

[@XxBec3509]

Nice film,, :) ive not seen me yet !! ....ive got lots more to upload ,,i guess i did see you ,, somewhere here ,,:)

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@oldenglishdave thank you =)

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@XxBec3509 cheers mate. Maybe we did see each other, who knows? Might see one and other in our part 2s

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@MrReardonJ thanks, all down to personal preference I suppose

[@SpeedToTheWest]

@gm66power thank you =)