
Second weekend of Cotswold Festival of Steam!
article by: Ian Crowder
posted on: 30 May 2008
updated on: 10 July 2009
The weather forecast is better so we're looking forward to a
bumper turnout for the last two days of the Cotswold Festival of
Steam and do we have a weekend in store!
- SEVEN ENGINES working throughout each day
- COFFE POT service with TWO HISTORIC
AUTO TRAILERS bringing back memories of pre-1960 trains on
the Honeybourne Line - first and last trains of the day to
Cheltenham (09.00 from Toddington/09.40 from Cheltenham and 17.40
from Toddington/18.15 from Cheltenham)
- 850 LORD NELSON available for inspection at
Toddington (we're sorry it isn't running because of firebox
problems)
- LOADED BALLAST TRAIN running between
Toddington and Winchcombe
- DOUBLE HEADED trains - don't miss the 17.20
from Cheltenham with 34007 and 92203 recalling the days of the
Pines Express - click
here for the timetable
- FOOTPLATE VISITS at Winchcombe and Cheltenham
stations
- SIGNALBOX VISITS at Cheltenham
- TOURS OF CARRIAGE AND WAGON WORKS at
Winchcombe
- STANDS AND STALLS at Toddington and
Winchcombe
- PAINTINGS BY FREDERICK LEA at Cheltenham
- BOOK SIGNING by John Stretton
And on Sunday 1st June, all this plus:
- DAVID SHEPHERD and Black Prince - looking back
over 40 years (at Winchcombe) - click here for information
- RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN MEMORIAL
FLIGHT Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane fly over at
14.55 - click
here for the full story
Don't forget to buy a copy of the Festival Guide - a great,
full-colour summary of everything happening with profiles of the
locomotives and some superb photographs - a fantastic souvenir of
your visit!
Follow the AA signs to Toddington station. Or go to Cheltenham
Racecourse and follow the signs within the Racecourse grounds - the
station is at the end of the spine road.