East Somerset Railway

22/3/24
Over three days, I went on a 3 day trip consisting of visits to 4 different heritage sites with the Branch Line Society. This was the first railway, visited on the Friday, the East Somerset Railway, featuring all available track as well as some unusual haulage for the railway.
Our motive power for the day was a Class 108 with Sentinel PBA No. 39 doing the shunting to free up sidings and lines etc. It was nice to visit the railway again after a long while, the last time being when GWR Taffy no. 5643 was present on the railway, now out of service at Swindon & Cricklade Railway.
Whilst track was the main objective for the tour, I was more interested by the access to see all the locomotives the railway had, including the Sentinel shed at Cranmore aswell as 4247 under overhaul in the sheds, my last 42xx for sight, was very pleased to see it after believing it had left the railway already (turns out, I was thinking of 4277). Another one was seeing RSH Meteor in pieces by Merryfield Halt, a loco I had no idea was there.
Was very nice to see the PBA sentinel in operation showing off its strength and flexibility, I believe was my first time seeing a sentinel in operation, and I got two in one day, with Joan (an 0-4-0 example) working aswell as giving cab rides.

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Steam engines should be running because it's Easter. Happy Easter, don't go scoffing too many chocolate Easter Eggs, lol.