GWR 41xx, 51xx & 61xx Large Prairie 2-6-2T
4160
One from the Classic Traction archives! Filmed during a Steam Recreations / Don Bishop Photo Charter on 16th March 2007, holiday trains in the west are rekindled as BR (WR) 41xx 2-6-2T Large Prairie 4160 pilots GWR 50xx 'Castle' 4-6-0 5051 Earl Bathurst on the West Somerset Railway at a variety of locations including Watersmeet, Eastcombe Bank, Churchlands, Nethercott and Woolston. The wonderful BR Maroon rake of Mk 1s was on loan from the SRPS, which the WSR had hired in especially for the 'Summer Saturdays in the West' Spring Gala event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYW7bAqury4
One from the archives! In 2006, BR (WR) 41xx 2-6-2T Large Prairie 4160 visited the Bodmin & Wenford Railway, and in this film we enjoy a train ride behind 4160 as she climbs from Bodmin Parkway towards Bodmin General on 2nd September 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtZ2cLUg7s
5199
In this film we enjoy a ride on the Llangollen Railway between Llangollen and Berwyn behind GWR 51xx 2-6-2T Large Prairie 5199 on 10th March 2015, in a wonderful recreation of welsh steam during the mid 1950s. Shame we cant continue on to Bala Junction.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acbM_vFw2O0
In glorious welsh scenery, we enjoy a ride on the Llangollen Railway behind GWR 51xx 2-6-2T Large Prairie 5199 (repainted in BR Black livery) from Glyndyfrdwy to Carrog on 10th March 2015. Can there be a finer recreation of travelling through mid Wales during the 1950s? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d4U_EjzWn4